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date: 16 May 2025

Robert Benchley 1889–1945
American humorist 

  1. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
    My Ten Years in a Quandary (1936)
  2. In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.
    Pluck and Luck (1925)
  3. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
    Nathaniel Benchley Robert Benchley (1955) ch. 1
  4. streets flooded. please advise.
    telegraph message sent on arriving in Venice
    R. E. Drennan (ed.) Wits End (1973) ‘Robert Benchley’