Jawaharlal Nehru
Politician, Prime Minister
"I am the last Englishman to rule in India."
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Englishmen
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William Henry Harrison
Politician
"To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity."
Washington Irving
Author
"The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil."
Teddy Thompson
Musician
"I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say."
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"German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen."
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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."
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"No Englishman is ever fairly beaten"
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"John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!"
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"It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce."
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"Englishmen must have an island."
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"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
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"We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are."
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"When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs."
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