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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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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In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.
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It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.
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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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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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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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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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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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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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People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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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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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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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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