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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. – Malcolm Bradbury

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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. – J. Bartlett Brebner

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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of Englands many spurious gifts to the world. – Richard Aldington

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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting. – Proverb

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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