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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.
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One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.
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I do not have a single white note on my piano my elephant smoked too much.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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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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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.
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Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.
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You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!
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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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