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Which Quotes by James Thurber
- 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…
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers…
- 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.
- 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…
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