“I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.”
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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