Ten minutes later I was in an enormous taxi-cab, an air-conditioned one, hired for the day for fifty dollars… — Kyril Bonfiglioli
Ten minutes later I was in an enormous taxi-cab, an air-conditioned one, hired for the day for fifty dollars; it seems an awful lot, I know, but money's worth awfully little over there, you'd be surprised. It's because there's so much of it, you see.
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