"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."

Nation, Country

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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

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"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."

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"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."

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"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."

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"Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife."

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