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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

James Thurber

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
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 past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
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
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
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
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

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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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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