": There's no need in this day and age for you to 'ang on to other peoples' rags. There's people that need it more than you do, people who really need it. Send it to the Oxford Famine Relief. : Oxford? Bah. There ain't no famine up there. I passed through Oxford; it looked alright to me. : No, it's the 'War on Want' mob. They send it out to Africa and places like that. : They don't wear riding breeches out there. Never seen a blackie in riding breeches: make their legs sweat... Better off than we are. I wish I was a blackie sometimes. All that sun, bananas growin' on trees, coconuts — marvellous life."
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