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HE news of the Quebec Rebellion (1837) was so bad, said a member in the House of Commons, that it had cost the Colonial Secretary many sleepless days.-Basil Howard. ES %* * HARD fact is seldom so entertaining as a soft fallacy--Ken Alexander, 2YA. * * * HORWALDSEN, the Danish sculptor, found weeping by his latest statue, was asked if he were not satisfied with it. He replied that he saw no fault with it, so he knew his imagination was in decay.- John Oman.
(CHIEF gripe of the French is that the English get paid so much more (58c. a day to the Frenchman’s 2%c.). "Les femmes", says the French soldier bitterly, "sont toutes a eux!" ("They get all the dames!’)-"Time", December 25, 1939. * * * | AUGHTER says more with less expenditure of air than any other form of human expression-Ken Alexander, 2YA. * * * HE job of the Director of the BBC is the last job I would have if I had every job in the world to choose from. I have succeeded now and then in pleasing thousands of people every night, but he has to please millions of people every hour of the day.-C. B. Cochrane.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 165, 21 August 1942, Page 2
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