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Peter Ackroyd Quotes: The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
         

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.


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It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.





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