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"I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language."
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englishman
language
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"Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind."
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sympathy
humour
humor
cambridge
embarassment
englishman
utensil
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Agatha Christie |
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He knew what they said of him locally: Oh, he likes to keep himself to himself. The phrase was descriptive, not judgemental. It was a principle of life the English still respected. And it wasn't just about privacy, about an Englishman's home--even a pebbledash semi--being his castle. It was about something more: about the self, and where you kept it, and who, if anyone, was allowed to fully see it.
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the-only-story
julian-barnes
englishman
the-self
privacy
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Julian Barnes |