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The Crimes of England

CHAPTER X
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If you have something to teach us, teach it to us now.

If you propose to convert us after you have conquered us, why not convert us before you have conquered us?
As it is, we cannot believe what you say about your superior education because of the way in which you say it.

If an Englishman says, "I don't make no mistakes in English, not me," we can understand his remark; but we cannot endorse it.

To say, "Je parler le Frenche language, non demi," is comprehensible, but not convincing.

And when you say, as you did in a recent appeal to the Americans, that the Germanic Powers have sacrificed a great deal of "red fluid" in defence of their culture, we point out to you that cultured people do not employ such a literary style.


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