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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

James Thurber

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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 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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman

For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

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