“It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.”

— Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 17.

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British art dealer 1928–1985

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