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• The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Men, Puppy

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.137, Melville House

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• The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

  Christopher Morley

  Fake People, People, Enemy

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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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.

  Christopher Morley

  Food, Animal, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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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.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Book, Science

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

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• 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.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Philosophy, Mathematics

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

  Christopher Morley

  Reminding Yourself, Reminding, Ifs

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1945). “Morley's Variety: A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MADE BY LOUIS GREENFIELD, AND PUBLISHED IN CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY”

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• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

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  Easter, Spring, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

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  Book, Helping, Virtue

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• The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

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  Courage, Art, Doors

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley”

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• Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

  Christopher Morley

  Gideon, Too Late, Literature

  "The Twin Bedside Anthology" by Charles Lee, (p. 183), 1946.

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• America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

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  Country, America, Government

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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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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  God, Heaven, Mind

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

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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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  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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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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  Inspirational, Children, Effort

  Christopher Morley (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Creation Of Man, Done

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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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  Wise, Dog, Dark

  Christopher Morley (1944). “The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944”, [New York] : Harcourt, Brace

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• In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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  Beauty, Faith, Fall

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.38, Fordham Univ Press

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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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  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

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  Birthday, Children, Kids

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• If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

  Christopher Morley

  Love, Friendship, People

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• There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Heaven, Earth

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

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