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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
| James Thurber | 
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
| James Thurber | 
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
| James Thurber | 
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
| James Thurber | 
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
| James Thurber | 
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
| James Thurber | 
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together a
| James Thurber | 
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
| James Thurber | 
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
| James Thurber | 
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
| James Thurber | 
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
| James Thurber | 
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
| James Thurber | 
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing thei
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