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My own parents loved each other very much.
Jilly Cooper
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Jilly Cooper
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: February 21
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Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
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There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.
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it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
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The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.
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I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
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Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.
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I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.
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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
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It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
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The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
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The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
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If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.
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I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
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I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
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I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
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A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.
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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
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hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.
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