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“As she watched, one evening, he seated himself at dinner and said: 'Madame, you look absolutely exquisite tonight.'
'Thank you.' She passed the corn.”
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'Thank you.' She passed the corn.”
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“The vegetable kingdom still remains one of the few which Napoleon has not yet conquered.”
― Uncle Bernac
― Uncle Bernac
“Freud said that laughter is the outward expression of the psyche. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play first house, Saturday night, Glasgow Empire.”
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“Once every year for four days the tens of thousands of Athenian citizens sat in the open air on the stone seats at the side of the Acropolis and from sunrise to sunset watched the plays of the competing dramatists. All that we have to correspond is a Test match. The manner in which the drama arrived will tell us something valuable about Test matches and (for the moment let us whisper it) the way Test matches arrived may start a trail into that vexed question: the origin of Greek drama. There are so many that another wouldn't hurt.”
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“This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.”
― The Anatomy Lesson
― The Anatomy Lesson
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