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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.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.
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