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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.
~ Craig Brown
About
Empty
Fill
Full
Just
Makes
Skip
Something
Want
You
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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.
~ Craig Brown
Activities
Argue
Badly
Beautiful
Christians
Designed
Essence
Fact
Faith
Flaws
Followers
Game
In Fact
Judge
Like
Opposite
Quite
Riddled
Should
You
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Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself have been trying so hard.
~ Craig Brown
Badly
Ball
Been
Hard
Hit
Like
Look
Many
Men
Myself
Net
Play
Playing
Racket
Tend
Tennis
Trying
Who
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Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
~ Craig Brown
Am
Art
Highly
I Am
Like
Losing
Many
Men
Prefer
Process
Recovery
Skilled
Things
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Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
~ Craig Brown
Became
Because
Been
Blazer
Disguise
Eye
Firm
Had
Handshake
Like
Looking
Originally
People
Preferred
Straight
Symbol
Trust
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Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
~ Craig Brown
Blazer
Bowler
Camp
Even
Hat
Like
Obstinacy
Out
Persist
Pinch
Self-Consciousness
Those
Touch
Way
Wearing
Who
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Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
~ Craig Brown
Arm
Around
Back
Breakfast
Breakfast Cereal
Cereal
Childhood
Free
Gift
Happiest
Looking
Looking Back
Moments
Some
Spent
Were
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Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
~ Craig Brown
Chance
Consolation
Cook
Difficult
Dinner
Eat
Forget
Going
Great
How
Many
Need
Nothing
Out
People
Quite
Same
Same Time
See
Something
Stranger
Talk
Time
Up
Wash
Without
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Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger.
~ Craig Brown
Ask
Directions
Know
Men
Never
Something
Stranger
Women
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Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.
~ Craig Brown
Also
End
Infinitely
Irritation
Lacking
May
Monopoly
Provided
Scrabble
Subtle
Tears
Tensions
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More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.
~ Craig Brown
Consequences
Find
Game
Like
More
More And More
News
Particularly
Random
Reads
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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.
~ Craig Brown
About
Average
Bubble
Critics
Done
Enthusiasm
More
Often
Plays
Pretty
Really
Said
Than
Theatre
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My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.
~ Craig Brown
After
Battalion
Cameron
Captain
Day
Father
Landed
Own
Queen
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My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
~ Craig Brown
Art
Later
Life
Life Is A
Monument
Much
My Life
Never
Off
Possibly
Procrastination
Putting
Things
Until
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Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
~ Craig Brown
Been
Before
Board
Bringing
Clear
Consulting
Dictionary
First
Game
Generally
Grow
Has-Been
He
Insisted
Irritated
Making
Occurs
Often
Opponents
Placed
Scrabble
Table
Throughout
Will
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One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
~ Craig Brown
Beyond
Fun
Joys
Many
Purpose
Serve
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One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
~ Craig Brown
Equal
Life
Money
Proportions
Roughly
Sense
Tricks
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Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.
~ Craig Brown
Admitted
Brightly
Coloured
Discreet
Flowers
Garden
Good
Good Taste
Grown
Grown-Up
Idea
Only
Over
Seems
Taste
Up
Vulgar
Years
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People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.
~ Craig Brown
Crash
Crashes
Different
Different Stages
Fact
Going
In Fact
Lots
Off
Orderly
People
Same
Same Time
Stages
Think
Time
Waves
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Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.
~ Craig Brown
After
Along
Another
Ball
Before
Belong
Each
Every
Give
Golf
Golf Ball
His
Hole
Introduce
Leaves
Left
Me
Moment
Motion
New
Personally
Player
Rolling
Rule
Run
Said
School
Stay
Stops
Tee
Thus
Up
Were
Whack
Would
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