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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurber

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
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
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
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
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
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer

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