The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.
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It relies on broad national generalizations that may not hold for all.
The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, t…
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers…
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort…
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
On amplifie egalement le malheur et le boneur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit.
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.