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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
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Whatever else an Italian may lack, he has an Ego. Sometimes two. It is nice to think that even the poorest Italian may possess two Egos while even the richest Englishman, as a rule, has none.
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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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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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George Mikes
Born:
February 15, 1912
Died:
August 30, 1987
(aged 75)
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