Robert Benchley - Sense Quotes

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

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Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

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You won't find one fish in a million that has enough sense to come in when it rains.

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