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ATIONS are habitually blind to any virtues save their own and will readily attribute to themselves good qualities which they do not in fact possess.-Dr. K, Sheen, 4YA. = * % * NGLISH women’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described but had never seen any.-Margaret Halsey. Ea * % BRIGADIER of territorials boasted to Winston Churchill: "I’m 68, I can do anything my men can. I don’t
drink, don’t smoke, always take care of myself. I am 100 per cent. fit." "I," said the Prime Minister, "am also 68, but I do drink, smoke, never take care of myself. And I am 200 per cent, fit"Arthur Krock, * %* CHILD’S chief passion is to be what it wants to be, while its parents’ is to make it what they want it to be,Ken Alexander, 2Y A, % * ke SECRET WEAPON? Besides dropping high sexplosive and_ incendiaries, Allied ‘planes machine-gunned buildings and road transport.-*Northern Advocate."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 170, 25 September 1942, Page 2
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156SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 170, 25 September 1942, Page 2
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