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

James Thurber

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm

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