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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy 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
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
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
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

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