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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.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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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Being young is not having any money being young is not minding not having any money.
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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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