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

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


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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.



All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.



Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.



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.

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.



There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.



High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.



There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.



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

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



A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.





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All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.



One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!



I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.



If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.

If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly.



Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.



Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.



With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.

With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me.



I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.




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