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" For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. "
Spike Milligan
Iron
Foot
Hand
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" We reach a secondary road and - here comes the bonus - we pass the Temple of Neptune and Cerene, at Paestum, both looking beautiful in the sunlight. Strung from the Doric columns are lines of soldiers' washing. At last they had been put to practical use. If only the ancient Greeks had known. "
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Looking
" Thankfully, we didn't stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too. "
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" I'm a hero with coward's legs. "
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" Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school. "
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" I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state. "
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" I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence. "
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" We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating. "
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" The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it. "
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Us
Dinner
" My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. "
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Father
Profound
" Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. "
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" I have resigned from the human race. Look at the way we treat animals. "
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Treat
" May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots. "
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Down
Spain
Socks
" I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke. "
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Years
Many
" All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. "
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Happy
Ask
Me
" It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school. "
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Doing
" The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.' "
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War
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" I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.' "
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Stars
Me
Life
" It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. "
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He
Perfect
Want
" Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. "
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Better
Money
Got
" I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure. "
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People
Professional
" It's all in the mind, you know. "
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Know
You
" I can speak Esperanto like a native. "
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Speak
Native
I Can
" You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals. "
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People
Animals
" I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge. "
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Old
Keep
Health
" I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. "
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Why
Thought
" A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. "
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Sure
Sit
Funny
" My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well. "
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Warrior
Father
Band
" I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. "
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Let Go
I Am
" Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her. "
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She
Me
Doing
" My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings. "
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Feelings
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Parents