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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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Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
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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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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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