The average sendentary man of our time who is at all sugges… - James Thurber

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The average sendentary man of our time who is at all suggestible must emerge from this chapter believing that his chances of surviving a combination of instinct, complexes, reflexes, glands, sex, and present-day traffic conditions are about equal to those of a one-legged man trying to get out of a labyrinth.

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James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

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