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"Germany has said that British democracy is degenerate. Well, I for one was never more proud of British democracy than…"

"Growing foreign perils were perceived and promptly and fully reported, first to London and then to ministers. Some pe…"

"Though there are exceptions in all species, many useful border plants — s, s, members of the , s — have foliage that …"

"For an extrovert April scheme of brilliant yellow and red, intolerable to a melancholy poet such as Eliot, combine a …"

"As far as western Europe is concerned, the 's story began in Turkey, from where in the sixteenth century, European tr…"

"All of my gardening coats have been my husband's cast-offs. He is sufficiently bigger than me for the coats to be roo…"

"The book opens like a , with the author trekking after native guides along a snake-infested trail through a in the wi…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Time is a feather'd thing, And, whilst I praise The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays, Takes wing, Leaving b…"