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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

James Thurber

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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself

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