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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

James Thurber

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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
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
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

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

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