We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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