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I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

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All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

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I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'

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For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

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I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

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The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

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I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

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I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.

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And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

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Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

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It's all in the mind, you know.

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Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?

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It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.

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I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

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It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

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May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.

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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

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I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.

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Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

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My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.

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You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.

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My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.

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I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God's presence.

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