At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn’t money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to d… - Robert Benchley

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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn’t money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one’s hands.

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Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, critic and actor.

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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. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

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