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James Thurber

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Skepticism is a useful tool of the inquisitive mind, but it is scarcely a method of investigation.
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Skepticism is a useful tool of the inquisitive mind, but it is scarcely a method of investigation.
There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.
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There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
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A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
I'm sixty-five, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
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I'm sixty-five, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
Live life by the abc’s... adventure, bravery and creativity.
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Live life by the abc’s... adventure, bravery and creativity.
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