James Thurber - Bed Quotes

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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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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

James Thurber

I suppose that the high-water mark of my youth in Columbus, Ohio, was the night the bed fell on my father.

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