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title: "3 Wasn French Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“Bastiat (1801–1850) was a strikingly clear-minded early advocate of what came to be known as liberal economics, whose central idea is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lanchester/bastiat-1801-1850-was-a-strikingly-clear-minded-early-advocate-of/)

[John Lanchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lanchester/)

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> [ It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. \[...\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/it-s-a-common-mistake-for-vacationing-americans-to-assume-that/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isabelle-adjani/i-talked-about-the-persecution-of-algerians-and-told-about-racism-in/)

[Isabelle Adjani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isabelle-adjani/)

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