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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

~Edgar Ramirez

Topics: Austria Classes Country English English-Speaking Ever German Had Language Lived Lot Never School Second

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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.

~Edie Campbell

Topics: Always Being English Freak Girl Great Idea Idiot Kind Less Like London Looking Lot Outside Particularly Scared Subculture Thing Think Where Wins I Think

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The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.

~Edith Pearlman

Topics: Active Before Century English Good Grew Invention Market Mineral Popular Springs Supposed Town Were You 20Th Century

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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Contrary Crooked English French Honest Individuals Nation True Who

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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Along American Because Century Commons Consider Debates Developments Documents Eighteenth Embodied English Government House House Of Commons Ideas Juxtaposition Late Later Many Period States United United States Were Why

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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Abandoned Armed Centuries Council English Fought More Next Nobody Order Services Sure Two Why

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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Any Carry Classical Does English Even Explanation Few Honor Know Language Latin Load Meaning Means Modern Most Much Old People Require Seem Spelling Spoken Think Unchanged Word Words Written

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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Accounts America English First Got Here History Knew Making New North North America Own Particular Settlers Soon Started Sure Themselves Were Writing

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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

~Edmund Waller

Topics: English Make May Ocean Only Others Road Use

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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

~Edmund White

Topics: Also Anne Captured Characters Death Deep English Even Evident Falling Fate Imagined May Meditation Novel Original Page Prose Quality Rounded Sound Superb Things Translation Turner Version Well

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