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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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Prince Philip
Age: 99 †
Born: 1921
Born: June 10
Died: 2021
Died: April 9
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British women can't cook.
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It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!
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It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
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You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?
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The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.
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I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?
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Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.
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Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.
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We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.
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It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.
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People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
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The bastards murdered half my family.
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[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?
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In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.
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During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.
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