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Famous quotes containing the words english and/or country:

“I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Prophets are not without honor except in their own country and in their own house.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:57.