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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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.
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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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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
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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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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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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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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
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It beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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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 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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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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