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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.

Barry Humphries

He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
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
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
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
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
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 truth is deafening, no matter how softly it is spoken.
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Defend Matter Spoken Truth
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
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
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.
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Best Delightful Live Past Place
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
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 can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
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
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
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
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Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible

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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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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