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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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

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