An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance--all strewn with crumpled playbills.
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