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A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
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Robert Benchley
Age: 56 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 15
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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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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I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.
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One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.
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I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
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In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
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I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.
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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.
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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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