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

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Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Christopher Morley

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

Fashion, Friendship, Grow, Growing Up, Haphazard, Tended

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

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I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

God, Heaven, Matter, Met, Mind

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Call, Children, Effort, Inspirational, Mind

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

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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.

Inspirational, Education, Book, Man, Whole

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