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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
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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