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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

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Wilson Mizner
Age: 56 †
Born: 1876
Born: May 19
Died: 1933
Died: April 3
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Benicia
California
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Magazines
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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Easy street is a blind alley.
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
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A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
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The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
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God help those who do not help themselves.
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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
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I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
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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 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 slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.
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The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
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He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
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If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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You're a mouse studying to be a rat.
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