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.

Quote by Christopher Morley

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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

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

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

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

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

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit...

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess...

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not...

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

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

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

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that...

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

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

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

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

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