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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
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 trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
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
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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself

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