Englishman

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“This, our respectable daily life, on which the man of common sense, the Englishman of the world, stands so squarely, and on which our institutions are founded, is in fact the veriest illusion, and will vanish like the baseless fabric of a vision; but that faint glimmer of reality which sometimes illuminates the darkness of daylight for all men, reveals something more solid and enduring than adamant, which is in fact the cornerstone of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.”
—Jackie Mason (b. 1931)

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