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England Quotes and Quotations
 If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.  Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there. In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so -bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! The English nation is never so great as in adversity. We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers. For he might have been a Rooshian A French or Turk or Proosian, Or perhaps Italian. But in spite of all temptations To belong to other nations, He remains an Englishman. What have I done for you, England, my England? What is there I would not do, England, my own? Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent. - Voltaire The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian angels sung this strain; "Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves." An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. 
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