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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Humanity
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Humans

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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in 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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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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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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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