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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

James Thurber

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce

Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

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