Englishman

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“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)