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1555
‘The Empire is Peace!’ Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant reflects on the way that a statesman’s place in history has so often been defined not by deeds or character but by his one-liners.

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1556
The ‘Empire’ of Free Trade Adam Smith

Free trade brings to smaller nations all the advantages of empire without the disadvantages.

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1557
The Empire Within Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley says that the pinnacle of political achievement is the government not of others, but of ourselves.

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1558
The Englishman George Santayana

George Santayana had the chance to observe our national character at the height of Empire.

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1559
The Evacuation of Dunkirk Clay Lane

The fate of the British army hung by a thread in May 1940, but ships large and small, military and civilian, came to the rescue.

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1560
The Fact-Lovers Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the demand for hard evidence as a peculiarly English trait.

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