Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.Robert Benchley
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
Robert Benchley
Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.
Robert Benchley
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley
I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.
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