A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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