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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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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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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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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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I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
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(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?
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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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You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
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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 is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
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