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The Frenchman showed her a great deal of Paris that day, saying over lunch at a café that it was impossible to see everything of interest in so short a time. "And of course the sights are only one aspect; there's also the theatre, the markets, clubs, festivals, gardens and much more."Delta smiled dreamily; it sounded wonderful.Enjoying her smile, Valois gave her cheek a playful caress. "If I try hard enough, you may never want to leave.

Brooke Templar
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There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

P.G. Wodehouse
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An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

Austin O'Malley
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Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
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Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

William Hazlitt
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Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.

Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
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I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Rawi Hage, Carnival
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
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