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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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 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
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time

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