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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

James Thurber

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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
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
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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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