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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Conductor
Pianist
Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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Longer
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Viola
Burns
Violin
Sarcasm

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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by Debussy. I don't play Beethoven so well, but I play Debussy very badly, and Beethoven would have liked that.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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