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Picture of Wilson Mizner. Wilson Mizner from a c. 1922 photograph.

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Wilson 'Bill' 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.

❝Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.❞ [+]

❝Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.❞ [+]

❝God help those who do not help themselves.❞ [+]

❝There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton restless.❞ [+]

❝Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.❞ [+]

❝To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady.❞ [+]

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