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The unicorn is a mythical beast.

James Thurber

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
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
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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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual 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
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness

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