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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

James Thurber

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
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself

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