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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.

James Thurber

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp

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