“In spite of all temptations
To belong to other nations,
He remains an Englishman!”

—  W. S. Gilbert

H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
Source: 1878, HMS Pinafore, act 2, also quoted in Dictionary of Quotations, p. 354 (2005)

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English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo 1836–1911

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