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Barry Humphries Quotes: If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
         

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.


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I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.



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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.



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