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'I have never acted on a press release or gone out to dinner with a PR. I think PR is a ridiculous job. They are the headlice of civilisation'

'Islington is about as far as you can get from London without needing yellow-fever jabs'

'Rolf Harris is a difficult man to hate but that shouldnt stop us trying'

'Proof that God has an odd sense of humour - after inventing Haute Cuisine he gave it to the French'

'All I can think of the Middle Ages is that everything must have chafed terribly'

Born in Edinburgh, Edinburgh and the Lothians
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He was a bold man that first eat on oyster. - Jonathan Swift
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Battle of Dunbar - 1296, Battle of Carbisdale - 1650, Slapton Sands Friendly Fire Disaster - 1944, Abortion is legalised in Britain - 1968
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