What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNEIt’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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Life is so much friendlier with two.
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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