Born French Citizen

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    States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
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    If you should put a knife into a French girl’s learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...
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