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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.
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I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good, the Golux said, by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life. The firefly's ? said the minstrel. The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
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You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
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I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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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 are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Looks can be deceiving it's eating that's believing.
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