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Reason is 6/7 of treason.

James Thurber

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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
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
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
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
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

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