English Country

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“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

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

“So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,—the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their “good breeding” respects only secondary objects.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)