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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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If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.
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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.
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You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.
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A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
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