Christopher Morley

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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."	Philosophy
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."	Wisdom
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life."	Philosophy
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life."	Wisdom
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."	Wisdom
"And of all man's felicities The very subtlest one, say I, Is when for the first time he sees His hearthfire smoke against the sky."	Quotations
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."	Children
"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."	Economics, Dancing
"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."	Food
"I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter."	God
"Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have."	Comedy, Help
"The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate."	Marriage
"The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow."	Quotations
"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."	Poetry
"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."	God, Truth
"Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare."	Miscellaneous
"Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare."	Quotations
"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."	Happiness

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