"Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is."

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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

— George Saintsbury