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Oh my country! How I love my country!

— William Pitt the Younger

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Lord Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt | Lord Rosebery reports it as "my country! how I leave my country!" in Pitt (1891), and attributes "O my country! How I love my country!" to Benjamin Disraeli. | See also Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, pg 456.

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