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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
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
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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 no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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

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