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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
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Blessed is the satirist and blessed the ironist blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
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