The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything … - D. H. Lawrence

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There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions.

D. H. Lawrence

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

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