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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

— Katharine Whitehorn

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Source: "Of the English climate" The Observer (London, 7 August 1966)
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