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• ‟ Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

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• ‟ Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

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• ‟ Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

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• ‟ The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

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• ‟ The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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• ‟ Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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• ‟ Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

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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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• ‟ Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

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• ‟ 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 of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

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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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