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An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. – George Mikes

Other quotes by George Mikes

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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Cats
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The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. – George Mikes

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Coffee (or Tea)
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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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Knowledge
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Despite crimes omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. – Camille Anna Paglia

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The order of the world is always right — such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. – Jean Baudrillard

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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. – Jane Jacobs

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His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time. – Salvatore Satta

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Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. – Alfred A. Montapert

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Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. – Walter Anderson

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