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Robert Benchley
American humorist
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
—Robert Benchley, American humorist, My Ten Years in a Quandary, 1936

Posted on May 5, 1999 at 11:24 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

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

Posted on November 26, 2002 at 6:42 AM

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