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Streets full of water. Please Advise.
Robert Benchley
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Robert Benchley
Age: 56 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 15
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Actor
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Worcester
Massachusetts
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Streets
Please
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Water
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I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!
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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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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
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