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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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.
JAMES THURBER

Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBER

Man Myself Sharp
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
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
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.
JAMES THURBER

Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing

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