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During the most controversial period of the Vietnam War, Mountbatten, in Los Angeles, was Johnny Carson's guest on the Tonight Show. He had previously warned Carson that he would answer no questions about Vietnam. On the show, after a few minutes of conversation that went quite smoothly, Carson apparently decided to slip one over on Mountbatten. "Sir," he asked, "if you were president of the United States, what would you do about Vietnam?" Replied Mountbatten: "I'd tell the British to keep their noses out of it."
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Actress Susan Hampshire, wearing an extremely low-cut dress, was presented to Prince Charles at a show-business function. Without a trace of embarrassment, the prince greeted Miss Hampshire with the words: "Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes."
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Every Christmas, composer Giacomo Puccini would have a cake baked for each of his friends. One year, having quarreled with Toscanini just before Christmas, he tried to cancel the order for the conductor's cake. But it was too late—the cake had already been dispatched. The following day, Toscanini received a telegram from Puccini: "Cake sent by mistake." He replied by return: "Cake eaten by mistake."
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James Michener was once invited by President Eisenhower to a dinner at the White House. He wrote a letter to Eisenhower explaining why he couldn't accept.
I received your invitation three days after I had agreed to speak a few words at a dinner honoring the wonderful high school teacher who taught me how to write. I know you will not miss me at your dinner, but she might at hers. In his lifetime, a man lives under fifteen or sixteen presidents, but a really fine teacher comes into his life but rarely. Eisenhower wrote back to say that he understood |
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Lloyd George was once approached by explorer Ernest Shackleton, seeking a sponsor for his next expedition. Proud to be considered a friend of the rich and famous, Lloyd George introduced the explorer to a millionaire of his acquaintance. Some time later, Lloyd George inquired of Shackleton how the meeting had gone. "Very well indeed," replied the explorer, "your friend was most charming and considerate. He offered me ten thousand pounds for my expenses, provided I would take you along with me to the Pole. And he promised me one million pounds if I were to leave you there by mistake."
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Asked if he didn't feel sorry to have beaten such a "nice bunch of guys" as the New York Giants when he was manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, Leo Durocher coined the classic: "Nice guys finish last."
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)
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Chesterton's mind was so preoccupied that he frequently forgot to keep appointments. He relied on his wife in all practical matters. Once on a lecture tour he sent her the following telegram: "Am in Birmingham. Where ought I to be?" She wired back: "Home."
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The American artist Chester Harding, painting Daniel Boone's portrait, asked the old frontiersman, then in his eighties, if he had ever been lost. Boone replied, "No, I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."
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When the subject of heaven and hell was broached in conversation one day, Jean Cocteau politely declined to offer any opinion. "Excuse me for not answering," he said. "I have friends in both places."
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