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“Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.”

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

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The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

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To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild…

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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they…

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