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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

James Thurber

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBER

Body Count Patience Yourself
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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

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