You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurber
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  1. All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

  3. You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

  4. You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.

  5. Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

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