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Life is not to live merely, but to live well.
All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.
Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.
It is not enough to love those who are near and dear to us. We must also show them that we do so.
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling foxes by shooting with a rifle. He suggested that that method was preferred in the Burns report. However, nowhere in that report, so far as I can see, does any conclusion suggest that fox hunting is cruel. I defy the noble Lord to find a reference in the Burns report that says that fox hunting is cruel. It does not say that anywhere. Therefore, the only conclusion to draw is that fox hunting is not cruel.