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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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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
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James Grover Thurber
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.
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The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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.
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