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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

Charles de Gaulle

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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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These people really aim very badly.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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