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Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called her your wife. Now, in order to wriggle through the tax-gatherer's net, you take your wife to Paris and call her your secretary.

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A speech is like a love affair: any fool can start one but to end one requires considerable skill.
On long speeches

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Cricket is a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of Eternity.

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My first car was painted red down one side and blue down the other to confuse witnesses in case of an accident.

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Nobody ever seemed quite clear whether the expression "drunk as a lord" should be taken as a compliment or an insult.

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The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.

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Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft

Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft

Born: July 27, 1914
Died: September 14, 1987 (aged 73)
Bio: Stormont Mancroft Samuel Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, born Stormont Mancroft Samuel, was a British Conservative politician.

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