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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
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
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 difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBER

Effective Equality Reveal Writing

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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