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Quote by 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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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a womans quality. – Pierre Corneille

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. – Blaise Pascal

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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse. – David Bailey

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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? – Anna Letitia Barbauld

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The relationships that people have – that are sexual, psychological, emotional – these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that. – Madalyn Murray OHair

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Give light and people will find the way. – Ella Baker

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Until Eve arrived, this was a mans world. – Richard Armour

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