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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

James Thurber

She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
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
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
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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