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Quote by Milton Berle
I don't steal people's jokes. I just find them before they're lost.
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The speaker denies stealing jokes and offers a humorous alternative explanation: the jokes were already there, but might otherwise disappear. “Find them” presents the speaker as locating something that could be lost, rather than taking something that belongs to someone else. The line turns an accusation into a witty change of wording.
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