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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
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
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth

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