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Reason is 6/7 of treason.

James Thurber

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

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