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“A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f6c6be979a9538a0cc5e3d35da42dfcdf8c9a039eccd3b77fd3580171043135f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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