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There is nothing more boring than a grievance, however well founded.

Malcolm Muggeridge

[This passage from Peter Ustinov’s autobiography Dear Me refers to his French Canadian in-laws at the time of his second marriage to the Canadian actress Suzanne Cloutier.]

Whatever the subject at dinner, it sooner or later veered round to this stale topic [incursions of the English language in Quebec], enlivened only by the ever-increasing fancy of its illustrations. I sat through this in calculated silence, having no contribution to make, and finding it impossible to generate a sense of outrage at second hand and without proof more convincing than that which seemed to excite the other diners.

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