“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 2.
“Nobody's wrong but England – and England's always wrong,
Too late – or else too early – too soft – or else too strong.
And when for once the wide world begins to praise her name
Her own sons crowd and hurry to shout her back to shame.”
"Poor Old Britain", Leave My Old Morale Alone (1948).
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