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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
Humorist
Wisdom
Comes
Wit

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The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
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Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
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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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Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery nowadays it is called moonlighting.
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Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you cry -- and the world laughs harder.
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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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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.
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A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond
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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 best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
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Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
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A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
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[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
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The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
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