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When you come back to England from any foreign country , you have
immediately the sensation of breathing a different air . Even in the first few
minutes dozens of small things conspire to give you this feeling . The beer is
bitterer , the coins are ...
When you come back to England from any foreign country , you have
immediately the sensation of breathing a different air . Even in the first few
minutes dozens of small things conspire to give you this feeling . The beer is
bitterer , the coins are ...
Page 49
Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to
accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages . Nearly every
Englishman of working - class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a
foreign word ...
Even when they are obliged to live abroad for years they refuse either to
accustom themselves to foreign food or to learn foreign languages . Nearly every
Englishman of working - class origin considers it effeminate to pronounce a
foreign word ...
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A foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth , the unfair electoral
system , the governing - class control over the press , the radio and education ,
and concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictatorship . But this ...
A foreign observer sees only the huge inequality of wealth , the unfair electoral
system , the governing - class control over the press , the radio and education ,
and concludes that democracy is simply a polite name for dictatorship . But this ...
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