The paths of glory at least lead to the grave, but the paths of duty may not get you any where.

—James Thurber

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About James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University (OSU), leaving in 1918 without graduating. He spent over a year in Paris, working for the US State Department as...

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

—James Thurber

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

—James Thurber

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

—James Thurber

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More quotations tagged with “duty”

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

—George Eliot

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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