Any kind of discourse which has a flavour of the British ruling class, so powerful is ancestral memory, must be strenuously avoided. (Anthony Burgess)

Any kind of discourse which has a flavour of the British ruling class, so powerful is ancestral memory, must be strenuously avoided.

Anthony Burgess

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