Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
Nations, like men, have their infancy. - Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy. – Henry Bolingbroke

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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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

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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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

Education is all a matter of building bridges. – Ralph Ellison

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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. – Hugh Leonard

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A threefold cord is not quickly broken. – Bible

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