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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBER

Fools People Time Yourself
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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.
JAMES THURBER

Edge Existence Literature
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
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
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
JAMES THURBER

Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason

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