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10. “Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.”
George Bernard Shaw
English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction
14. “In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.” J. R. R. Tolkien Language, Academia, Leeds, English, Career
16. “English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all – there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand alone on the highest platform.” Winston Churchill Literature, English, Inheritance, Culture, Treasures
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10. “Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.”
George Bernard Shaw English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction
14. “In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.”
J. R. R. Tolkien Language, Academia, Leeds, English, Career
16. “English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all – there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand alone on the highest platform.”
Winston Churchill Literature, English, Inheritance, Culture, Treasures
