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Quotes by A. P. Herbert

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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn’t any Board, and now there isn’t any Trade.
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Greenfly, it’s difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee.
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There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.
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Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it’s jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!
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Let’s stop somebody from doing something! Everybody does too much.
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Let’s find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
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Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
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The portions of a woman which appeal to man’s depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
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The rain is plentious but, by God's decree,
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aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
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