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«The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.»
«The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everyone makes everything so easy for everybody else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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English, English people, Everything to Everyone, nicest, on the whole, resist, the English
«The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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England, English, English people, enormous, majorities, majority, people of England, snobs, the English
«The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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elected, election, election of, English people, enslaved, gravely, lose it, Member of Parliament, mistaken, parliament, parliaments
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