"It was part of your religion to hate…" — Rebecca Harding Davis
"It was part of your religion to hate the British."
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28 Quotes by Rebecca Harding Davis
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to…
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or…
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Reform is born of need, not pity.
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
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War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
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Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint…
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TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could…
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We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man…
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
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It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call…
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But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
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More British Quotes
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything…
— David Attenborough
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
— Beck
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
— Tony Benn
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of…
— Sade Adu
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
— Richard Branson
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and…
— Richard Branson
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is…
— Louise Brown
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