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The plural of spouse is spice.

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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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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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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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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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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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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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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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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.
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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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The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
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