French Dramatist

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“In matter of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)

“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)