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If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
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Prince Philip
Age: 99 †
Born: 1921
Born: June 10
Died: 2021
Died: April 9
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It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it.
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Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!
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In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.
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You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.
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Do you still throw spears at each other?
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