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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
[ Drawing ]
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
[ Wisdom ]
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
[ Purpose ]
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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
[ Arts and Artists ]
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Discussion in America means dissent.
[ Dissent ]
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
[ Death and Dying ]
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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
[ Attitude ]
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
[ Indecision ]
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
[ Humor ]
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
[ Men and Women ]
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
[ Idleness ]
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It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
[ Questions ]
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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
[ Anger ]
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
[ Love ]
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
[ Love ]
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
[ Comedy and Comedians ]
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There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
[ Light ]
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
[ Conflict ]
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While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.
[ Character ]
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Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?
[ Conformity ]
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
[ Lies and Lying ]
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
[ Persuasion ]
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