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Continental people have a sex life the English have hot-water bottles.

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George Mikes
Age: 75 †
Born: 1912
Born: February 15
Died: 1987
Died: August 30
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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 despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.
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To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.
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The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia it never lived. Television did not kill it there was nothing there to kill.
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Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
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Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.
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The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
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I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.
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Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
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On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.
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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 is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own.
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To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
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A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
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The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
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