| Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs? |
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- Christopher Morley |
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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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- Christopher Morley |
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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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- Christopher Morley |
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| There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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| New York, the nation's thyroid gland. |
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- Christopher Morley |
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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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- Christopher Morley |
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