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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 8, 1894

Zodiac Sagittarius

Location Columbus, Ohio

Country United States

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Love is what you`ve been through with somebody.

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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

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At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.

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Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

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It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought the peas were awful, I wish you and Mrs. Thurber were dead, and I hate trees,' said Lisa.

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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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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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You are all a lost generation,

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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