Christopher Morley Quotes About Literature
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Only the sinner has the right to preach.
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Dancing is a 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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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
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From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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 misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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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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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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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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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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