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Be England What She Will, With All Her Faults She Is My Country Still.
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Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.
-- Charles Churchill (1731-1764)
-- The Farewell, Line 27
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 206...
Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
-- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), The Farewell, Line 38...
Lady Nancy Astor: "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee.
Winston Churchill: "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it....
I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's mid
and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour....
Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
-- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susa...
Rev.: Marge is going to tell us about your faults, why don't you tell us about hers?
Homer: Oh, she's perfect. Rev.: Come on, Homer, what are her faults?...
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
-- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxxi, 27...
Such a good friend that she will throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
-- Charles Count Talleyrand (1754-1838)...
Homer: OK, Marge: as long as we're traumatizing the kids, _I_ have a scandalous story of my own.
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