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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

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
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman 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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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

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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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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