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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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

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