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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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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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Forget Tea
Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Lead Life
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Song Want
How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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Blue Cloud Float Sweet
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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Advise Character Watch
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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Conservation Person Tail
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Character Decent Fellow Man Patato Pretty
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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Door Eat Friendship Stuck Try
She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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Discipline Goodness She Thinking
Friendship is a very comforting thing to have.
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Comfortable Friendship One Liner
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Believe Hurry Inspirational Patience River
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Bird Born Dare Die Fly Opportunity Rise Swift Time Try Wait Wings
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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Book Invitation People Run Terrible
Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Animal Listen People Problem
What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
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Afraid Fear Fortune Life
They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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Accident Funny

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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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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