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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

Abe Burrows

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Abe Burrows
Age: 74 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 18
Died: 1985
Died: May 17
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Humorist
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New York City
New York
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Editorials
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Taste
Never
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Anyone
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