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George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)

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Sherry... a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

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The English have forgot that they ever conquered the Welsh, but some ages will elapse before the Welsh forget that the English have conquered them.

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Born: July 5, 1803
Died: July 26, 1881 (aged 78)
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