"Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school."

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Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.142, Penguin UK

George Mikes

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