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Quote by George Mikes
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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George Mikes
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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

Category:
Coffee (or Tea)
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George Mikes
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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

Category:
Knowledge
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George Mikes
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Other Quotes from
Order
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. – Will Durant

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Order

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

Category:
Order

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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Order

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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Order

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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors… and that is their competitive sense. – Elia Kazan

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Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. – Dandemis

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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication. – Frank Ocean

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communication