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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.
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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Humorist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Somebody has said that woman's place is in the wrong. That's fine. What the wrong needs is a woman's presence and a woman's touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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