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From Quotes by Robert Benchley
- A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
- Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left…
- If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
- New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New…
- There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the…
- If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large…
- Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of…
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