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If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

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Lytton Strachey

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

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If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

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When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

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With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

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Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

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