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    Funny Quotes By Famous People
    Funny Quotes By Famous People
    Funny Quotes By Famous People
    Ebook38 pages26 minutes

    Funny Quotes By Famous People

    By Tabitha Carrington

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    Hundreds of funny quotes by famous people that will tickle your funny bone and make your brain's humor center tingle. No anonymous quotes here and no boring quotes allowed. Here's a few examples:

    "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
    - Winston Churchill

    “Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted.”
    - Bob Monkhouse

    “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
    - Albert Einstein

    "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
    - Martin Mull

    "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."
    - Coco Chanel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTabitha Carrington
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9781310460159
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