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The different men we are in conceit and in humility! Vanity is all the vitamins and all the calories; vanity can keep a man warm in winter without blankets.

— Randolph Bedford Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

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‘I am as happy,’ said he, ‘as a kingk, enchoying himsellef in his harem mit his queens.’

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

It is not without design that the monkey with the rainbow stern climbs high. It is the advertisement of his sex appeal, and he doesn't climb far unless there is an audience.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

His moments of most sentimental recollection were when he thought of the beauty of the sausages he had manufactured.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

Australia has a word for the Anthony Comstocks, a word that should be used the world over to describe a killjoy, and that word is 'wowser'.

Naught to Thirty-three (1944)

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