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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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When an opera star sings her head off? she usually improves her appearance.
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I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.
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The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.
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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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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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In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.
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I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.
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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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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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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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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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A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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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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Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.
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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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The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
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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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