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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Magician
Writer
the United States of America
Continues
Starts
Humor
Years
Like
Wildfire
Smoldering
Wildfires

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THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
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