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“Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.”

Ifs Country Moments Fall Air England Slavery Slave Breathe Our Country That Moment Lungs Shackles Slavery Freedom

Author:William Cowper

“England is the only civilised country in the world where it is etiquette to fall on the food like a wolf the moment it is served. Elsewhere it is comme il faut to wait until everybody has helped himself to everything and until everything on everybody's plate is stone cold.”

World Country Moments Fall Waiting Cold Stones England Manners Elsewhere Plates Etiquette Civilised Stone Cold

Author:Virginia Graham

“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”

Men Long Fall Race Feet Position Prove Anxiety Vote India England Obstacles Cows Lofty Pedestal Owing Tiresome

Author:Stella Benson

“England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.”

Children Littles Government Fall Streets Safe England Sells Clouds Islands Gray

Book:Serious Money

Source: Serious Money

“One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.”

Years Wells War Reason Fall Speak Loss Difficulty England Strikes Disaster Empires Fall Back Through The Years

Author:Norman Mailer

“For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.”

Mean Made Enough Age Lasts Political Night Fall Christ Trouble Atheism Middle England Positive Atheism Globes Middle Ages Degradation Steep

Book:Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.”

Doe Fall Strong Attitude Steps United States Risk Feet England Disposition Adaptation Peril Englishmen Vigorous Steps Forward Stand Firm Insularity

Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“The Princess Elizabeth, of England, was found dead with her head resting on her Bible, open at these words, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." So may we all fall asleep at last when the day's work for Jesus is over, and wake up in heaven to find ourselves in the delicious rest that remaineth for the people of God.”

People Giving May Lasts Fall Found Jesus Heaven Labor England Wake Up Heavy Princess Delicious Found Dead

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.”

Fall Victory England France Veils Lap Lofty

Book:The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed

Source: The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed

“I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?”

Ifs Thinking Fall Language India England France Germany Ruined English Language Englishmen Deliverance

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.”

Writing Fall Streets Walking Band England Falling In Love Load

Author:Simon Taylor-Davis

“Now let's try to understand that falling into sexual and emotional thrall with an underage blood relative hadn't exactly been on my list of Things to Do while visiting England,but I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”

Trying Happens Fall Belief Blood Emotional Happenings England Dear Lists Things Happen Things To Do Relative Visiting Dear Life Blood Relatives

Author:Meg Rosoff

“We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.”

Fall Justice Liberty Citizens Gratitude England France Agency Sober Good Will Monarchy Republicanism Subservience

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph