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An average English motorcar could be placed, I believe, without much difficulty, in the luggage-rack of an average American automobile.
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Three Italians engaged in a friendly chat can make more noise than the average English mass-demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
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Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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February 15, 1912
Died:
August 30, 1987
(aged 75)
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