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In France, we dug trenches ten miles long. We took earth from here and made hills there. We moved entire fields. You wouldn't believe what we did. It's possible. It's just hard work.
— The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain • 1995
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker boasts of impossible-sounding feats in France: trenches ten miles long, earth carried from one place to build hills elsewhere, whole fields shifted. They tell the listener disbelief is understandable, then land on a plain moral: it can be done, and it simply takes hard work.
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