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"Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame."

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Maybe Napoleon was wrong when he said we were a nation of shopkeepers... Today England looked like a nation of goalkeepers.

— Tom Stoppard

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Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

— William Cowper

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