Standard Modern French

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    A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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    The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
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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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