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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
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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Nothing
Policemen
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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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What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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