Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen.
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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
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To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
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How many Irishmen are there who would purchase material prosperity at such a price? It is exactly such a question as this and the answer to it that shows the difference between the English and Irish race. Nine Englishmen out of ten would jump to make the exchange, and I firmly believe that nine Irishmen out of ten would indignantly refuse it.
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Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.
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The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.
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He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain.
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In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
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You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
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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.
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