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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
Plural
Spice
Spices
Spouse
Humor
Funny

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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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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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