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Wake up, England, you have been asleep too long!

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Source: Speech in the Guildhall of London after a trip around the world, as quoted in Ralph D. Blummenfeld, "H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, Heir to the Throne", Leslie's Weekly, vol. 95, no. 2,444 (10 July 1902) p. 28, col. 3
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