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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

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 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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
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
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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