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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
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
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

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