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James Thurber (1894-1961)

James Thurber  (1894-1961) James Grover Thurber was an American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit. Thurber was best known for his cartoons and short stories published in The New Yorker magazine.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.