"As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister."
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"Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!"
"People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word."
"Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997."
"I was a star in England, but Ive never been a star in America. Now I am."
"Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now."
"The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly."
"Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree."
"You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs."
"Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!"
"I cannot speak your england."
"It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
"An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England."
"That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
"To England will I steal, and there I'll steal."
"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
"England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war."
"There are bitter weeds in England."
"A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex."
"What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?” Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.” Say what?” We burn them.” The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said"