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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

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Wilson Mizner
Age: 56 †
Born: 1876
Born: May 19
Died: 1933
Died: April 3
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
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God help those who do not help themselves.
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Count 10 over him - he'll get up
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The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
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I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
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I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'
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A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
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I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
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It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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