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Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
from the book "" by Mark Twain
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France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
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Most English-speaking people will admit that cellar door is "beautiful," especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh, for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent, and moving to the higher dimension, the words in which there is pleasure in the contemplation of the association of form and sense are abundant.
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The French bourgeois doesn't dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.
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The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
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He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen.
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The bus is English. When that is said, all is said. As a rule, any English thing is nineteen times as strong and twenty-three times as heavy as it needs to be. The bus fills these requirements.
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You can't destroy the Poles but if you give them power they'll destroy themselves.
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