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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

Barry Humphries

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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it’s very comfortable and dependable.
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Art Past Thinking
Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.
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Struggle Thick Years
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
I’m an immensely shy and vulnerable woman. My husband has never seen me naked. Nor has he expressed the least desire to do so.
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Desire Husbands Women
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Destiny Satire School Someone World
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
The truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
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
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
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
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Inspirational Sports Pursuit Sports
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

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