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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.

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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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