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Robert Benchley

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About Robert Benchley

Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist, newspaper columnist and actor. From his beginnings at The Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from his peers at the Algonquin Round Table in New York City to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.

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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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.
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.