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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
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"American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring."
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"I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
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"I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"Reform is born of need, not pity."
Pity

"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North."
Road

"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."
America

"The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay."
Childhood

"Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage."
Patriotism

"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
Religion

"TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance."
Life

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet."
Love

"We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart."
Heart

"It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below."
Heart
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