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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
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
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
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
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
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
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
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 nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing

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