"I am the last Englishman to rule in India."
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"German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen."
"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."
"No Englishman is ever fairly beaten"
"John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!"
"It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce."
"Englishmen must have an island."
"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
"We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are."
"When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs."