“How much longer are we English to assist foreign nations in misunderstand us, by holding up that ridiculous lay-figure of our race known by the style and title of John Bull?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Charles Dickens
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
"One Grand Tour Deserves Another" in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (27 December 1862)
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Dickens, Charles. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Charles Dickens. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
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