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James Thurber

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
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
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
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
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

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