"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

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"Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese."

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"Old age is a shipwreck."

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"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."

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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."

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