The English country gentleman galloping after a fox
- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised.
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
To many, no doubt, he will seem blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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