“Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.”

— Winston S. Churchill

On studying English rather than Latin at school, Chapter 2 (Harrow).
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965

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