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History

Commonplace Book

© TRANSPORT FOR LONDON
Commuting to work takes a whole new dimension on London’s new cables across the Thames.

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‘The Welsh are all actors. It’s only the bad ones who become professional.’

— Richard Burton

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‘It is not true that I never eat vegetables. I once ate a pea.’

— Beau Brummell

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‘The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.’

— G.K. Chesterton

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‘When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.’

— Richard Burton