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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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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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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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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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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
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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.
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Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
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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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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
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Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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