United Kingdom
For etymologies of the United Kingdom's constituent "countries" – England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, – see List of country-name etymologies. For etymologies of the United Kingdom's counties, see Etymological list of counties of the United Kingdom.Read more about this topic: List Of Etymologies Of Country Subdivision Names
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“And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)