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The term gentleman is usually given to any well-dressed person wearing a sword.

— César-François de Saussure

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England undoubtedly is, in my opinion, the most happily governed country in the world.

Englishmen say that it is better that twelve culprits should escape human justice rather than that one innocent man should perish.

London is assuredly the greatest commercial city in the world.

English workmen are everywhere renowned, and that justly. They work to perfection, and though not inventive, are capable of improving and of finishing most admirably what the French and Germans have invented.

One may say that there is cruelty and even ferocity in some of the pastimes of the people. Occasionally dogs are made to fight, and sometimes men belabour each other with wicker staves, or kill cocks with blows from a club.

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