Greatest British

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“Modesty, ‘tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“The inhabitants of St. John’s and vicinity are described by an English traveler as “singularly unprepossessing,” and before completing his period he adds, “besides, they are generally very much disaffected to the British crown.” I suspect that that “besides” should have been a “because.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)