Quotes with frenchman

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• A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

  Art Buchwald
  American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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• Bahia is the Amazon's geographical next-of-kin: the same climate, forest canopy, diverse floor. But there is no wild cacao; the tree was introduced, most likely by a Frenchman, Louis Frederick Warneaux, who, in 1746, sowed seeds near one of Bahia's large rivers.

  Bill Buford
  American author and journalist
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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• 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 his beneath him with satisfaction.

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• geographical
• satisfaction
• unthinkable
• constantly
• englishman
• syphilis

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