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The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#character #commonplace #english #insular #joke

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#art #back #believe #bring #fancy

Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#beings #both #existence #implied #indications

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#age #because #income #increase #longer

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#few #few things #i #things #well

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#day #here #neighbor #now #times

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism. ↗

— Gordon Smith

#antisemitism #beyond #cartoons #country #differences