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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
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
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce

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