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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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.
JAMES THURBER

Cleaning Hands Night Reason
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
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
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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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