Quote by James Thurber
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but i

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – 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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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. – Will Durant

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. – Thomas Fuller

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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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