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Quote by Katharine Whitehorn
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat i

People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you dont try to predict what. – Katharine Whitehorn

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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. – Katharine Whitehorn

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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. – Katharine Whitehorn

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