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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
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 wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

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