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If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley
Age: 56 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 15
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Massachusetts
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You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.
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My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.
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The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.
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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
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Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
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What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
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This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
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There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
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If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.
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You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.
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Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.
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