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

James Thurber

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
JAMES THURBER

Laughter People Tragedy
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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

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

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