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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
— William Blackstone
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a…
— James Bryce
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as…
— James Anthony Froude
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Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case…
— Calvin Trillin
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack…
— John Desmond Bernal
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By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and…
— Albert Einstein
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In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must…
— George Polya
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what…
— Elmore Leonard
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Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.
— Paul Clitheroe
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On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
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It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
— William Wordsworth
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What happens when you speak positively? When you speak positively there is no negative left to express and then there's a gap. And that gap…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had…
— Jean Alesi
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The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or…
— Jeffrey Zaslow
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The English think soap is civilization.
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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I speak better English than this villain, Bush.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word
— Unknown Author
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My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
— America Ferrera
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