1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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“Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)

“They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.”
—John Morley [1st Viscount Morley Of Blackburn] (1838–1923)

“Of old all invitations ended
With the well-known R.S.V.P.,
But now our laws have been amended
The hostess writes B.Y.O.B.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)