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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
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If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.
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The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
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The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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Don't ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let's just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
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For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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Every male in the world thinks he's an excellent driver. Every copper who's ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.
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The first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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1964
(age 60)
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