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French Quotes by Lytton Strachey
- The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
- How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
- The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in…
- When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time…
- With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
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