I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

