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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

James Thurber

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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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
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
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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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 trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

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