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As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).
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Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.
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The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
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I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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Whereas a lot of men used to ask for conversation when they really wanted sex, nowadays they often feel obliged to ask for sex even when they really want conversation.
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
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It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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