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

James Thurber

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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBER

Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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

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