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“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt. A Spectre has very often saved a Play, though he has done nothing but stalked across the Stage, or rose through a Cleft of it, and sunk again without speaking one Word.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)