"But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget."
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"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."
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"Boy, the things I do for England."
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"I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England."
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"When it comes to saving England, Maggy is Ball's Deep"
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"I'd Love to be captain of Arsenal for even just one day."
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"The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined."
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"I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living."
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"If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England."
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"Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff"
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"At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England."
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"The people who came to New England, came for freedom of religion. The problem is, freedom of religion to them meant freedom for only their religion"
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"All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter."
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"The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland."
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"'Keep England White' is a good slogan."
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"A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean."
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"I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface."
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"There was a time in medieval England when they had wandering minstrels ... A wandering minstrel would have been Frank Sinatra's counterpart had he lived during the time of Henry II in 1190 or 1180."
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