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Quotes from The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn — Henry Kingsley

1830–1876 England

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I see a vision of a nation, the colony of the greatest race on the earth, who began their career with more advantages than ever fell to the lot of a young nation yet. War never looked on them. Not theirs was the lot to fight, like the Americans, through bankruptcy and inexperience towards freedom and honour. No. Freedom came to them, Heavensent, red-tape-bound, straight from Downing-street.

The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (1859)

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