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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Oh, BTW, I'm sorry to have to correct you again, but the saying today is actually, "the sun never set [note: not present tense] on the British Empire." The saying "the sun never sets [present tense] on the British Empire" was said in the days when Great Britain had control of one fourth of the land in the world. 
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Either is correct, surely? As the page that I linked to shows, the sun still doesn't set on the British Empire.
Oh, and in English, it's one
quarter, not one fourth. Next you'll be missing the u out of words like colour