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Katharine Whitehorn
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Want
#People
#Committee
When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Management
#Housework
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Talk
#People
#Money
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Work
#Office
#Admiration
#Yield
I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Feeling
Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.
Katharine Whitehorn,
I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.
Katharine Whitehorn,
#Right
#People
#Heart