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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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