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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

James Thurber

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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Angry Awareness Fear Future Past

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