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the French
«The French peasant cuisine is at the basis of the culinary art. By this I mean it is composed of honest elements that la grande cuisine only embellishes.»
Author: Alexandre Dumaine
| About:
Cooking
| Keywords:
cuisine, culinary, culinary art, embellish, embellishes, embellishing, peasant, the French
«The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, French, the French, The Thing
«Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
French, French Revolution, pretext, pretexts, the French, The French Revolution, vanity
«The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
admirable, French Revolution, human error, Louis, permanency, predicate, predicated, rely, systems, The Admirable, the French, The French Revolution, XIV
«The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
controlling, German, probity, rests, sincerity, sprightliness, steadily, superficial, the English, the French
«The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Country
| Keywords:
courtly, decorous, Germans, Good Natured, hearty, Italians, Italian A, offense, plausible, polite, reserved, Scotch, Spaniard, the French, The Italian
