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Whatever is in store for me, I shall watch the daily modulations with an impersonal fascination not unmixed with awe at Mother Nature's gift for Caricature, and will take the bitter with the sweet and keep a stiff upper lip.

— Robert Benchley

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

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The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now."

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