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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
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
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light

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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