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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

James Thurber

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
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
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
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
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety

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