"Never trust them, never trust them. They can't be trusted."

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“I'll polish it off myself.”

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

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“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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