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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
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
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
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

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