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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
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 might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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