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An American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur.
Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876, Benicia, California - April 3, 1933, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur. His best-known plays are The Deep Purple, produced in 1910, and The Greyhound, produced in 1912. He was manager and co-owner of The Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles, California, and was affiliated with his brother, Addison Mizner, in a series of scams and picaresque misadventures that inspired Stephen Sondheim's Road Show.

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God help those who do not help themselves.

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I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

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A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something.

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I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers it's research.