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A cravat has to be approached with consummate self-confidence and a devilish nonchalance. A cravat has to be grasped by a man who knows how to treat a cravat.
A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the simple and relaxed military cloth tied at the neck.
A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.
All people from small islands dance funny.
And learn to tie a bow - it's not difficult and there's no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.
As handbags get ever more absurdly large, so they need to carry more stuff to validate the expense of this huge trunk with chains, buckles and padlocks on.
Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.
Boredom is not a thing. It's not a feeling or a condition. It is the absence of feelings, things and conditions.
Clothes maketh the man. They don't make you some other man.
Cowboy boots you can't wear unless you actually are a cowboy or in a Status Quo tribute band, or over 60; there's something about a retiring gent in cowboy boots that looks sort of presidential.
Every man imagines that he will turn his suit like a double agent, that it can be twisted to his will with irony or comedy, that the man can undermine its origins.
Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.
For men, privacy means not being told stuff that would hurt. For women, secrecy is having stuff go on behind your back.
Frightened is the natural state for all men.
Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.
Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.
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