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Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
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Etymology: from Latin ad-, to + visum, past participle of videre, to see. Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
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Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
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Don't tear your hair out over a woman it'll be harder to attract the next one if you're bald.
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A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
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Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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