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"Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones."

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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

— Bob Hope

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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