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

James Thurber

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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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