I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.), Bollingen Foundation
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