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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.

James Thurber

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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Dog Himself Level Man Success
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
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
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
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

Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.

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