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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

James Thurber

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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
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
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm

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