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The greatest poem ever known I...

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

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Standing by the crib of one's ...

Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.

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The little Plumpuppets are fai...

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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Everybody thinks of others as ...

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also seems to regard himself as existing on a detached plane of observation, exempt (save in moments of avid crisis) from the strange whims of humanity en masse.

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Truth is the ricochet of a pre...

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Christopher Morley 175 quotes

It will be a shock to men when...

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

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Continually one faces the horr...

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

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The censure of a dog is someth...

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

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My prayer is that what we have...

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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What is the virtue and service...

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

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How womanly it is to ask the u...

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

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Fifty percent of the world are...

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

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Friendships do not grow up in ...

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

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They go in [to the library] no...

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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From now until the end of time...

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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Poetry comes with anger, hunge...

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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Animal crackers, and cocoa to ...

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.

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Read, every day, something no ...

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

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Be prepared for truth at all h...

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn...

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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