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If You Feel Compelled To Give A New Year's Eve Party, Don't Invite People To Arrive Too Early Or They'll Go Off The Boil Before Midnight.

Meetings ... Are Rather Like Cocktail Parties. You Don't Want To Go, But You're Cross Not To Be Asked.

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.

Hurting Other People Is Not Excusable Because You've Been Hurt Yourself.

I Think We Ought To Have A Kindness Year, Or A Kindness Century.