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If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

— Stephen Fry

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Originally broadcast on Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4, circa 1987.

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