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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?
JAMES THURBER

Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBER

Effective Equality Reveal Writing
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBER

Enough Generation Lost Trouble
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
JAMES THURBER

Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
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
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
JAMES THURBER

Behavior Man Mindset Understand
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
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.
JAMES THURBER

Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth

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

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