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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
Spice
Spices
Spouse
Humor
Funny
Plural

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.
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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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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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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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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Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
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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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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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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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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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.
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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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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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