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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

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
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.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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 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 flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety

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