"France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal."
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"Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind."
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"Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?"
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"The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different."
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"France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers."
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"France will always be a great nation."
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"I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is."
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"In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny."
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"There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health."
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"Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength."
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"Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches."
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"France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere."
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"The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany"
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"Life is short, and the Tour de France long."
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"Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France."
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"We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there."
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"The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage."
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"In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot."
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"France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same."
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