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

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness 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
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
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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

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