Elibron: Wit & Wisdom

	"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." Oscar Wilde
	"Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob . . . whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world." Russell Lynes
	"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring." Nelson Algren
	"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role." Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State
	"How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?" Charles de Gaulle
	"I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you." William Faulkner
	"If the Mafia exists in Montreal, it's probably like the Knights of Columbus." Armand Courville
	"London is a bad habit one hates to lose." Anonymous
	"The Moscow of these [Soviet] pageants is the old core city with its buildings of pastel hues and white trim that, with the season's continual dustings of snow, appear to be the work of confectioners." Warren Hoge
	"There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama . . . only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture." Sheridan Morley, drama critic, International Herald Tribune

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