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

James Thurber

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself

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

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