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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

James Thurber

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
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
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
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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