I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you βsirβ and βmadam,β and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of βwhat is doneβ and βwhat is not done,β and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena β¨ Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). My Life in France, p.76, Anchor
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