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

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Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Language
Robert Benchley

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Youth
Robert Benchley

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

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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Travel and Tourism
Robert Benchley

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Writers and Writing
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Quotations
Robert Benchley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun