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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
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 no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself

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