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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.

Peter Ackroyd
Laughing, Secret, Strikes
"The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.
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.