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MysteRy · « **Reply #30 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:44:20 PM »

[highlight-text]Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Hugh Mills

MysteRy · « **Reply #31 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:45:57 PM »

[highlight-text]The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for 5 days.

Clement R. Attlee

MysteRy · « **Reply #32 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:47:17 PM »

[highlight-text]Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

MysteRy · « **Reply #33 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:47:55 PM »

[highlight-text]The Englishman respects your opinions but he never thinks of your feelings.

Wilfrid Laurier

MysteRy · « **Reply #34 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:48:33 PM »

[highlight-text]I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

MysteRy · « **Reply #35 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:49:15 PM »

[highlight-text]The English may not like music but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Thomas Beecham

MysteRy · « **Reply #36 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:51:57 PM »

[highlight-text]Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Anthony Burgess

MysteRy · « **Reply #37 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:52:44 PM »

[highlight-text]The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Daniel O'Connell

MysteRy · « **Reply #38 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:53:41 PM »

[highlight-text]The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

James Agate

MysteRy · « **Reply #39 on:** April 22, 2017, 09:54:48 PM »

[highlight-text]George III ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

Edmund C. Bentley

MysteRy · « **Reply #40 on:** April 23, 2017, 09:50:09 PM »

[highlight-text]What have I done for you England my England? What is there I would not do England my own?

William Ernest Henley

MysteRy · « **Reply #41 on:** April 23, 2017, 09:54:54 PM »

[highlight-text]That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.
Frank Adcock

MysteRy · « **Reply #42 on:** April 23, 2017, 09:57:25 PM »

[highlight-text]England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

George Santayana

MysteRy · « **Reply #43 on:** April 23, 2017, 09:58:35 PM »

[highlight-text]Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

MysteRy · « **Reply #44 on:** April 23, 2017, 09:59:06 PM »

[highlight-text]It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

George Bernard Shaw

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