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Scratch an Englishman and find a Protestant.

— George Bernard Shaw

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  1. Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
  2. Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?
  3. Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
  4. Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and …
  5. You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
  6. One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
  7. You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
  8. God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!

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  • religion
  • culture
  • identity
  • nationality
  • english
  • protestant

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