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 | "Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country
still." | |
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Charles Churchill
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| "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." | |
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The Bible
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| "Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people
more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make
the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather
insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at
every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone
who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed." | |
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Herbert Ernest Bates
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| "England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a
paradise for horses, hell for women...." | |
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Robert Burton
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| "England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell
of horses." | |
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John Florio
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| "England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!" | |
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William Cowper
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| "English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it"s good enough for
the children of Texas." | |
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Miriam ``Ma"" Ferguson
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| "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to
speak it to?" | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their
mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case
one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth." | |
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Calvin Trillin
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| "Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a
role." | |
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Dean Acheson
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| "I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his
shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and
bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain" | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his
shoes." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time lag of fifty
years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought
to be done and a serious attempt to do it." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and
I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me."" | |
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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| "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the
Empire are irresistibly drained." | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| "No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for
there is in London all that life can afford." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing
"Oh how wonderful" and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go
out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths
with broken dinner knives." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise
it makes." | |
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Sir Thomas Beecham
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| "The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm." | |
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Proverb
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| "The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he
can pretend that it isn"t sex but something else." | |
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James Agate
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| "The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble
purpose." | |
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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert
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| "The future of the aircraft industry is still the responsibility of
the engineer. Money alone never did and never will create anything." | |
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Unknown
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| "The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise
titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.... There
is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would
not be tolerated in England for a week." | |
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Margot Tennant Asquith
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| "The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."" | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check
enclosed."" | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "There are many religions, but there is only one morality." | |
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John Ruskin
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| "There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen
doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does
everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs
you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "There is only one nature ? the division into science and engineering
is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human
failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." | |
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Bill Wulf
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| "Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known,
euphemistically, as the stately homes of England." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake,
the faith and morals hold Which Milton held." | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem
solved, I"d place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave
slide rules here." If I didn"t do that, I"d find someone reaching for his
slide rule. Then he"d be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can"t do
it."" | |
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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