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If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Make-up girl: No.
Douglas-Home: Why not?
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So hoist up the John B. sail. See how the main sail sets. I'm full in my heart and my head and I want to go home, with a book in each hand, in the way I had planned. I feel so broke up, I want to go home.

 

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