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...anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly,
Paris the rainy, Paris the damnable. More than a hundred years ago somebody
asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?"
"Yes," said he, "Last summer." I judge he spent his
summer in Paris. Let us change the proverb; Let us say all bad Americans
go to Paris when they die. No, let us not say it for this adds a new horror
to Immortality. Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die. |
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M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue
as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal." The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine
and adultery.
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| In Paris they just simply opened their
eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their own language. - The Innocents Abroad |
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