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James Thurber

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself

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