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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBER

Marriage Mutual Thinking
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
JAMES THURBER

Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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