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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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Filing is concerned with the past anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
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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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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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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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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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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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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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