#englishmen

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

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I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ↗

— Ray Davies

#elsewhere #englishmen #go #i #many

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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Englishmen have always loved Moliere. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#englishmen #loved

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. ↗

— John Amery

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