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The best careers advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

— Katharine Whitehorn

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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Sunday Best (1976)

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher (1606)

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