England Quotes
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Mr Palliser was one of those politicians in possessing whom England has perhaps more reason to be proud than of any other of her resources, and who, as a body, give to her that exquisite combination of conservatism and progress which is her present strength and best security for the future.
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The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.
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I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.
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I used to take long walks in England. The second time I went there, it helped me to lose a lot of weight. When I wasn't playing, I used to spend the whole day walking. Going from shop to shop.
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As a big music fan, England is an amazing place to go.
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Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.
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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
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Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.
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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnot like it, and I didnot inhale, and I never tried again.
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Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note.
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All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
