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125. France
"France is worse than Scotland in everything but climate. Nature has done more for the French; but they have done less for themselves than the Scotch have done."
Boswell: Life
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147. France
His dislike of the French was well known to both nations, I believe; but he applauded the number of their books and the graces of their style. "They have few sentiments (said he), but they express them neatly; they have little meat, too, but they dress it well."
Piozzi: Anecdotes
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264. France
"No, Sir, if literature be in its spring in France, it is a second spring; it is after a winter. We are now before the French in literature; but we had it long after them. In England, any man who wears a sword and a powdered wig is ashamed to be illiterate. I believe it is not so in France. Yet there is, probably, a great deal of learning in France, because they have such a number of religious establishments; so many men who have nothing else to do but study. I do not know this; but I take it upon the common principles of chance. Where there are many shooters, some will hit."
Boswell: Life
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