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In India, all along, development as a process was always affected from the top down style of functio...

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My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such ...

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But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again,James had riske...

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William Dalrymple (historian)White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, s...

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The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was si...

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However British you may be, I am more British still.

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated t...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Q. Why don't the British panic?A. They do, but very quietly. It is impossible for the naked eye to t...

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George MikesHow to Be an Alien: A Handbook for Beginners and Advanced Pupils

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own term...

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When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and ...

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There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to...

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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You wou...

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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British i...

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Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that the...

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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ...

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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a ...

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There were people who believed their opportunities to live a fulfilled life were hampered by the num...

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Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude:...

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