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James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

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James Thurber

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

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

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James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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James Thurber

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

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

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James Thurber

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

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

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James Thurber

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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James Thurber

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

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James Thurber

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

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James Thurber

One great advantage which poetry has over prose

One great advantage which poetry has over prose—one sense in which, we might even say, it is considerably more beautiful—is that it fills up space approximately three times as rapidly.