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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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Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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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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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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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 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).
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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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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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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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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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A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
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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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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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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 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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Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
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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 disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
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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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I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
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