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The plural of spouse is spice.

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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Plural
Spice
Spices
Spouse
Humor

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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
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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.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
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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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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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Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
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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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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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