-- A Chinese child
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
- -- A.P. Herbert
+ -- A. P. Herbert
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Anything anybody can say about America is true.
-- Emmett Grogan
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh
autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
- -- P.J. O'Rourke
+ -- P. J. O'Rourke
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
- -- The Best of Will Rogers
+ -- The Best of Will Rogers
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them
seemed to come from Texas.
How many priests are needed for a Boston Mass?
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
- -- Yul Brynner, 1956
+ -- Yul Brynner, 1956
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I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of
pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you
and God, this is goodbye. We're moving to Hollywood."
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
- -- W.C. Fields' epitaph
+ -- W. C. Fields' epitaph
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One of the rules of Busmanship, New York style, is never surrender your
seat to another passenger. This may seem callous, but it is the best
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The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from
sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
- --Salvador De Madariaga
+ -- Salvador De Madariaga
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The best case: Get salary from America, build a house in England,
live with a Japanese wife, and eat Chinese food.
live with a Chinese wife, and eat Japanese food.
The worst case: Get salary from China, build a house in Japan,
live with a British wife, and eat American food.
- --Bungei Shunju, a popular Japanese magazine
+ -- Bungei Shunju, a popular Japanese magazine
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The best thing that comes out of Iowa is I-80.
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To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he
is allowed to drive a taxi in New York. For New York cabbies, honesty and
stopping at red lights are both optional.
- -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
+ -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To a Californian, all New Yorkers are cold; even in heat they rarely go
above fifty-eight degrees. If you collapse on a street in New York, plan
to spend a few days there.
- -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
+ -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons
in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other.
- -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
+ -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks. There are,
in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people. The
only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the
Swedes speak better English."
- -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
+ -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To a New Yorker, the only California houses on the market for less than a
million dollars are those on fire. These generally go for six hundred
thousand.
- -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
+ -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
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To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in
Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's
be in the United States. Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is
a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States
and not be happy.
- -- H.L. Mencken, "On Being An American"
+ -- H. L. Mencken, "On Being An American"
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To know Edina is to reject it.
-- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Election"
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