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Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
København
Børge Rosenbaum
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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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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 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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There are three Bachs. Johann, Sebastian and Offen.
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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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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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(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
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Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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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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They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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