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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.
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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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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
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Born:
September 15, 1889
Died:
November 21, 1945
(aged 56)
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