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Uncle Matthew's four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. 'Frogs', he would say, 'are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.' Nancy Mitford Abroad is bloody. King George VI Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. Mary McCarthy The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Edward Bond The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. Robert Morley Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. Samuel Butler An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country. Sir Henry Wotton As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. Margaret Oliphant The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad. Mark Twain It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself. Franz Grillparzer At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. Harold Macmillan |
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