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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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