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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

James Thurber

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself

She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

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