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Keeping Your Coat On Indoors In Russia, No Matter How Public The Place, Is Far Worse Than Keeping Your Hat On As The Flag Goes By. It Is Worse Than Going Into A Catholic Church In Spain With Your Upper Arms Bare. It Is Worse Than Telling A Mother Her Baby Bores You.

When He Said We Were Trying To Make A Fool Of Him, I Could Only Murmur That The Creator Had Beat Us To It.

There Are Three Things The Prospective Traveler To Russia Does Well To Bear In Mind. One: It Is Their Country. Two: Most Foreigners Are Profoundly Relieved That This Is So. Three: You Don't Have To Go.

That Is What Is So Marvelous About Europe; The People Long Ago Learned That Space And Beauty And Quiet Refuges In A Great City, Where Children May Play And Old People Sit In The Sun, Are Of Far More Value To The Inhabitants Than Real Estate Taxes And Contractors' Greed.

When Men Don't Like Another Man Everyone Assumes He's No Good And That The Men Know What They Are Talking About, Yet When Women Dislike Another Woman People Just Think They're Being Catty.