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Robert Benchley

"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
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"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
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"The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."
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"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."
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