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Although The Rudiments Of Snobbery Are There, Its Finer Developments Are Basically Alien To The Australian Soul - That Is, If Australians Have A Soul; Many People Believe That They Are Too Matter-of-fact And Down-to-earth To Have Such Fancy Commodities.

Was He Joking? Was He Being Sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or Just Courteous? There Was No Telling From His Impassive Face. What A Country, He Thought Despairingly. In Russia You Always Knew. If A Man Made A Stern Face He Was Threatening; If He Was Laughing Uproariously, He Was Joking.

Japan Is, You Often Feel, An Improved Version Of The United States.

The British Are Proud Of Their Ability To Create A Muddle And Then Muddle Through All Difficulties. I Must Shake The British Pride: Muddle Is Not An Exclusively British Institution. Read Descriptions, For Instance, Of The Over-organized, Wonderfully Systematic And "thorough" German War Machine During The Last War.

Humility Is One Of The Most Repulsive Virtues, Nearly Always False.