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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
Virgil / Poet
Britons
Nationalism
World
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Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Evelyn Waugh / Writer
Britons
Nations
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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
James Thomson / Poet
Britons
Rule
Slaves
Waves
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Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.
Heather Brooke /
Britons
East
Middle East
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Britons are very respectful - if they want to take a photo, they ask politely.
Leroy Sane /
Britons
Respectful
Photo
Politely
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We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.
Helen Sharman / Chemist
Boundaries
Britons
Explorers
Pushing
Adventurers
After
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One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
Robert Baden-Powell / Writer
Britons
Celebrated
Stick
Tight
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I love the island of Majorca. I love the beach at Cala Ratjada, which is on the far side of the island where not many Britons go.
John Torode /
Beach
Britons
Island
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Most Britons, and most Americans as well, either thought the Globe was in Stratford-Upon-Avon or didn't know where it was at all.
Sam Wanamaker /
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The Britons bankrupted me. I came to their country with £10 in my pocket and they gave me £1 back. But in between I had one hell of a ride.
Bruce Grobbelaar / Goalkeeper
Britons
Pocket
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When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical.
David Olusoga /
Britons
Identical
Parallels
Suggesting
African Americans
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We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.
Francis Maude / British Politician
Britons
Millions
Immigrant
Origin
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The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Adopted
Ancient
Belief
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Descendants
Hug
Pure
Tongue
Welsh
Everywhere
In Fact
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Many Britons who backed Brexit believed - and believe still - that a U.K. 'freed' from 'Europe' would be able to recover and re-establish its historic destiny as an independent global trading nation.
Linda Colley / Historian
Britons
Historic
Trading
Backed
Brexit
Freed
Recover
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
Caleb Cushing / Diplomat
Kings
Britons
Europe
Heritage
Law
Republic
Formed
Great Republic
Liberties
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People in this country, Britons, have a special relationship with dogs. And like the millions of dog owners across our great nation, my wife and daughters and I regard our dog as a treasured member of our family.
Alok Sharma /
Britons
Millions
Owners
Regard
Treasured
Daughters
Family Relationship Great
Dogs
Great Nation
Member
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Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Billions
Britons
Employers
Pounds
Poverty
Workers
Below
Poverty Line
Wage
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At the start of the 21st century, Britain is caught in a confusing riptide of anxiety. Of course racism still exists, but things have improved to a point where many ethnic minority Britons do not experience it as a regular feature in their lives.
Munira Mirza /
Britons
Confusing
Racism
Ethnic
Feature
Improved
Minority
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There was a time when a certain type of Tory could have been relied on to swing from the chandeliers in defence of the rights of freeborn Britons. I suppose a lot of those Tories would have been what you might call 'one-nation Tories.' That tradition has died in the Conservative party.
Emily Thornberry /
Britons
Conservative Party
Defence
Swing
Tories
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In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.
Linda Colley / Historian
Benign
Britons
Catholic
Convinced
Excess
Roman Empire
Sea
Armies
Builders
French
Empire
In The Past
Rested
Roman
Spanish
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
Annie Besant / Member Of The London School Board
Ancient
Boots
Britons
Brutal
Civilized
Colonists
Delicate
Forgotten
Heavy
India
Past
Sensitive
Tribes
Uncivilized
Nation
Cultured
Entirely
Relations
Trample
Whose
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