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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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Example is better than precept.
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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