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Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language
Emerson

As three to six hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman
Samuel Johnson

They're stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set
William S. Burroughs

As the world grows smaller, so the minds of men grow smaller, more compact, and more empty
Raymond Chandler

The man who regards his past is a man who deserves to have no future to look forward to
Oscar Wilde