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: " It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English.

But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset.

It leads people to despise you.

They say – a foreigner – he can't even speak English properly.

Also I boast!

An Englishman he says often, " A fellow who thinks as much of himself as that cannot be worth much.

And so, you see, I put people off their guard.