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Quote by James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. – James Thurber

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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. – James Thurber

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Nature
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James Thurber
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber

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Age
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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. – James Thurber

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Dignity
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We are spirits clad in veils. – Christopher P. Cranch

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The map is not the territory. – Alfred Korzybski

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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854

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We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. – William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823

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