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“The ordinary manwe have to face it: it is every bit as true of the ordinary Englishman as of the ordinary Americanis an Anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Mustnt grumble was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair. What was the use? But Americans did nothing but grumble! Americans also boasted. I do some pretty incredible things was not an English expression. Im fairly keen was not American. Americans were showoffsit was part of our innocencewe often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
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