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• I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the…
• A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
• You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
• The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists…
• To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
• Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
• Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific…
• An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
• THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
• In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two…
• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may…
• Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are…

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