Famous quotes containing the words french and/or merits:
“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)
“None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.”
—Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
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