French Word

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“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)