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The essence of humour is surprise that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.
A. P. Herbert
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A. P. Herbert
Age: 81 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 24
Died: 1971
Died: November 11
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There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps but the lungs are fine.
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Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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Let's stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
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A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.
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Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
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Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
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The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
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