Famous quotes containing the words born, french and/or citizen:
“And born hym weel, as of so litel space,
In hope to stonden in his lady grace.
Embrouded was he, as it were a meede
Al ful of fresshe floures, whyte and reede.
Syngynge he was or floytynge al the day.
He was as fressh as in the monthe of May.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“I am a citizen of the world.”
—Sylvia Beach (1887–1962)
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