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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. – George Mikes

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On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners. – George Mikes

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You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. – George Mikes

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In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers. – Jose Serrano

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it. – Johnny Isakson

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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