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"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."
"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."
"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."
"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."
"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."
"The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
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