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The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

— Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

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Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

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

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Thunder on the Left (1925)

But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

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