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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."

"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
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