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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…
- A couple from Sydney or Melbourne might leave on the same day for their holiday: the wife might go sun-bathing at Surfers Paradise, in Queensland,…
- Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know…
- The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
- Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It…
- Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought…
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