"Was this yours? Oh, could you take it?"

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“I'll polish it off myself.”

“Tinkety tonk old fruit, and down with the Nazis.”

“I wouldn't if I were you, Noël; they count them before they put them out.”

“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

“I am glad we have been bombed. Now we can look the East End in the eye.”

“We'd have to go self-service.”

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