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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
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The cosmopolitism of Germany, the contemptuous nationality of the Englishman, and the ostentatious and boastful nationality of the Frenchman.
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Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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