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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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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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Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.
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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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...the elephant smoked too much.
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In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and 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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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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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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