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AN OLD ENGLISH HOME
And, if I am not much mistaken, it is this early developed sense of independence that has been the making of Englishmen all over the world; but, then, it is the conservative element, the holding to the paternal acres, that has made of dear old England one great garden and park, the proprietor spending his
money on the land, instead of on his pleasures or self, as elsewhere.
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