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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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Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
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A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
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After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
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A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
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The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.
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Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.
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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
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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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A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.
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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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The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
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Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
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Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
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The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
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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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