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Virtue is its own revenge.
Yip Harburg
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Yip Harburg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 8
Died: 1981
Died: March 5
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg
E. Y. Harburg
Isidore Hochberg
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
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The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.
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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?
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When the melody touches your heart emotionally and the words hit your brain intellectually, more than likely you'll find you'll have an excellent song to sing.
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Music gives 'wings' to words.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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No matter how high or great the throne, What sits on it is the same as your own.
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Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way.
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My whole family has been having trouble with immigrants ever since we came to this country.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
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Leave the atom alone.
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I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
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