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Quote by James Thurber
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is t

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? – James Thurber

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Its a na?ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think youll be amused by its presumption. – James Thurber

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Wine
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber

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Humor
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

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Jealousy is the fear of comparison. – Max Frisch

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Fear

Part of the reason that the governments fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. – James Bovard

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Fear

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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Fear

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear

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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. – Alexander Smith

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Quotations

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

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Failure

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other peoples, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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Peace

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. – Reba McEntire

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Life