"We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people."
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"You look like you're ready for bed!"
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"Can you tell the difference between them?"
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"I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word."
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"The more people there are, the more food we need, the more space we occupy, the more resources and consumer goods we wish to have and the more development has to take place"
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"You managed not to get eaten then?"
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"My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work."
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"You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?"
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"It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons."
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"They're not mating are they?"
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"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?"
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"Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?"
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"They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off."
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"I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world."
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"Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'"
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"If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."
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"Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?"
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"There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all."
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"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease."
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"I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing."
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