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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
