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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
Humorist
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Games
Life

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A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.
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When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
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All work and no pay makes a housewife.
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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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Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery nowadays it is called moonlighting.
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Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
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Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.
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Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
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Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g others, because they understand each other too well.
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An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.
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After wisdom comes wit.
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Some people worry because they are in debt others, because they can't even get in.
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A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
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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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