Quote #20

'That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though.'

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  3. 'By 'eck it were grand.'
  4. 'I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.'
  5. 'Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.'
  6. 'The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on''.
  7. 'It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don…
  8. 'If you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker.'

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