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

James Thurber

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBER

Alcohol Drink Enough Right
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER

Answer Better Known Question
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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.
JAMES THURBER

Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBER

Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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.
JAMES THURBER

Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBER

Fantasy Myth Unicorn

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