"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
"To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena."
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Source: Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.77, Pan Macmillan
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