Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. (Robert Benchley)

Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing.

Robert Benchley

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