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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

James Thurber

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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

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