The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing. (The English take their pleasures sadly). [Anglica gens est optima flens et pessima ridens.] Thomas Hearne, Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (Ed. 1857), Volume I, p. 136. (Source referred to Chamberlayne, Anglicæ Notitia (1669). From old Latin saying quoted in Kornmannus, De