"Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?"
— England

January 1, 1970

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Mrs. Centilivre, Cruel Gift. Epilogue written by Nicholas Rowe. He was … a heart of oak, and a pillar of the land. Wood—Ath. Oxon. (1691), II. 221. Yonkers that have hearts of oake at fourscore yeares. Old Meg of Hertfordshire. (1609). Those pigmy tribes of Panton street, / Those hardy blades, those hearts of oak, / Obedient to a tyrant's yoke. A Monstrous good Lounge. (1777), p. 5, quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 222-25