The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.Malcolm Bradbury
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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