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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
Funny
Plural
Spice
Spices
Spouse
Humor

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Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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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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Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
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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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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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Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
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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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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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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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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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April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
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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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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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