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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).
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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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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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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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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Spring makes everything look filthy.
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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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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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Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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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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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent 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 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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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 main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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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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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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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for 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 beats me how Freud could say What do women want? as if we all must want the same thing.
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