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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/623/">Quotes by <em>Benchley, Robert</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, and drama editor. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

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"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about"

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

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"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."

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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

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

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"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."

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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."

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