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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
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It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.
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You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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I can still chase women, only downhill
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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