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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia
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Friendship Funny Mom
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
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Art Past Point Seductive Song
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Army Children Parent
I know body hair bothers some women, but a lot of men like a fluffy partner.
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Body Bother Hair Men Some Women
It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Fun Needs Together
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
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Harbor Nature Pearls
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable

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