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— Doris Lessing"You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires."
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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
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