To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.
Samuel JohnsonThere is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
Samuel Johnson