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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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535 |
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AUTHOR:
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
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QUOTATION:
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find an Englishman doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man of Destiny, one act play, in his Complete Plays with Prefaces, vol. 1, p. 743 (1962). Napoleon is speaking. |
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SUBJECTS:
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England |
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