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James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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