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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.
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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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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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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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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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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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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As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
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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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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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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.
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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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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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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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