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“Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.”

Alice Thomas Ellis

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“There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.”

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“I vividly recall an occasion when the oldest son was starting to crawl. We were sitting in a garden in the country with acres of velvet lawn and I picked him up and ran with him, dropped him on the touch line and flew back to sip a drink in comparative peace before he could get at me again. He…

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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

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The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. ... I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have…

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Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

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Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the…

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One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight…

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