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FOREST --- FORGET / FORGETFULNESS
FORGIVENESS --- FRANCE
FRAUD/S

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FOREST

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Many land animals and birds are disappearing
before the advance of civilization. Draining,
cultivation, cutting down of forests, and even
the introduction of new plants and animals,
destroy some of the old and alter the relations
between those that remain. The inaccessible
cliffs of the Himalayas and Andes will afford
a refuge to the eagle and condor, but the time
will come when the mighty forests of Bhutan,
of the Amazon and Orinoco, will disappear
with the myriads of their joyous inhabitants.
--Mary Somerville (1780—1872)
Scottish mathematician and astronomer.
_Physical Geography_ [1848; 1877 edn.) p.504

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of
each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer;
but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing
off those woods and making the earth bald before her
time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising
citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but
to cut them down!
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Life Without Principle_ [1863]

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sylvan [SIL-vuhn], adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to woods or forest regions.
2. Living or located in a wood or forest.
3. Abounding in forests or trees; wooded.
noun:
1. A fabled deity or spirit of the woods.
2. One that lives in or frequents the woods
or forest; a rustic.



FORGET / FORGETFULNESS

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see: "MEMORY"
see: "NOTEBOOKS"
see: "THOUGHT"
see: "THE MIND" for other related links


The horror of that moment, the King went on, 'I shall never
forget.' 'You will, though,' the Queen said, 'if you don't make
a memorandum of it.'
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Thorough the Looking-Glass_, ch. I [1872]

The three things most difficult are—to keep a secret,
to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure.
--Chilon (6th cent. B.C.)
One of the Seven Sages of Greece.
Attributed in "Herald of Truth" [Geneva, NY, 15 January 1836].

[Of a witty rejoinder remembered after one has left a party:]
Staircase wit.
--Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.
_Paradoxe sur le Comedi้n_ [1773—1778]

We forget all too soon the things we
thought we could never forget.
--Joan Didion (b. 1934)
American journalist and novelist.
_Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ [1968]

Nobody is forgotten when it is
convenient to remember him.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
Letter to Lord Stanhope [17 July 1870].

I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind.
--Ernest Dowson (1867—1900)
English poet.
"Non Sum Qualis Eram" (I am not what I was) [1896]

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition
of knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless
facts elbowing out the useful ones.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_A Study in Scarlet_, ch. 2 [1887]

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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading
something in a book which was significant to him, but which
he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but
no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he
buy the book and ransack every page.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
Entry of 2 July 1867 in _Journals_, [pub. in 10 vols., 1910—1914].

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In reading authors, when you find
Bright passages, that strike your mind,
And which, perhaps, you may have reason
To think on, at another season,
Be not contented with the sight,
But take them down in black and white;
Such a respect is wisely shown,
As makes another's sense one's own.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
"A Hint to a Young Person"

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You may forget the one with whom you have laughed,
but never the one with whom you have wept.
--Kahlil Gibran (1883—1931)
Lebanese poet.
_Sand and Foam_ [1926]

A retentive memory is a good thing, but
the ability to forget is the true token
of greatness.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
"Indianapolis News" [4 January 1925], as quoted in
Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993].

Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn't. It simply
files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from
you — and summons them to your recall with a will of its own.
You think you have a memory; but it has you!
--John Irving [John Wallace Blunt, Jr] (b. 1942)
American author.
_A Prayer for Owen Meany_ [1989]

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
Quoted in Hester Lynch Piozzi
_The Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson_ [1786].

Many thoughts wander around in
my head. Some even wander out.
--Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909—1966)
Polish writer.
_Unkempt Thoughts_ [1962]

It is not without good reason said, that he who has not
a good memory should never take upon him the trade
of lying.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_, bk. I Ch. IX "Of Liars"

It is easy to promise, and alas! how easy to forget!
--Alfred de Musset (1810—1857)
French poet, dramatist, and author.
Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 423 [10th ed. 1884].

Let bygones be bygones.
--Francis Nethersole _Parables_ [1648]

The advantage of a bad memory is that, several
times over, one enjoys the same good things for
the first time.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Human, All Too Human_ [1878], tr. Marion Faber [1984]

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
In J. K. Hoyt & Anna L. Ward (eds.)
_The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations_ p. 526 [1881].

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
--Christina Rossetti [pseud. Ellen Alleyne] (1830—1894)
English poet.
_Goblin Market_ [1862], "Remember"

Women and elephants never forget an injury.
--Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (1870—1916)
Scottish writer.
_Reginald_ [1904] "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_King Henry V_, IV, iii [1598—1599]


Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what's done is done.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_, III, ii [1606]

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the naive forgive and forget; the wise
forgive but do not forget.
--Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
American psychiatrist.
_The Second Sin_ [1973] "Personal Conduct"

Parting and forgetting! What faithful heart can do these? Our great
thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us.
Surely, they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow
it whithersoever that shall go; and are of their nature divine and
immortal.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863)
English novelist.
_The History of Henry Esmond_, ch. VI [1852]

Teach me not the art of remembering, but the art of forgetting,
for I remember things I do not wish to remember, but I cannot
forget the things I wish to forget.
--Themistocles (524–459 BC)
Athenian politician and general.
In Cicero _De Finibus_, bk. ii, ch.32.

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Today man is, and tomorrow he will be seen no more.
And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out
of mind.
--Thomas a' Kempis (1380—1471)
German ascetical writer.
_The Imitation of Christ_, bk. 1, ch. 23, sec. 1 [c.1420]

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Out of sight, out of mind.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.
_Adagia_ [1500]

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There was an old man of Khartoum
Who kept a tame sheep in his room,
'To remind me,' he said,
'Of someone who's dead,
But I never can recollect whom.'
--anon.

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Three elderly ladies were discussing the trials of getting
older. One said, "Sometimes I catch myself with a jar of
mayonnaise in my hand in front of the refrigerator and
can't remember whether I need to put it away, or start
making a sandwich." The second lady chimed in, "Yes,
sometimes I find myself on the landing of the stairs and
can't remember whether I was on my way up or on my
way down." The third one responded, "Well, I'm glad
I don't have that problem; knock on wood," she raps
her knuckles on the table, then says, "That must be
the door, I'll get it."

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confabulate [k๊n-‘fๆb-yu-leyt] (verb):
To chat, converse; (psychology) to fill lapses of memory
with fabrications that one believes are facts.

nepenthe [ni-PEN-thee], noun:
1. A drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient
writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or
trouble.
2. Anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness,
esp. of sorrow or trouble.




FORGIVENESS

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see: "KINDNESS" for other related links


You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian,
but never to admit them in your sight, or allow
their names to be mentioned in your hearing.
--Jane Austen (1775—1817)
English writer.
_Pride and Prejudice_ [1813]

In taking revenge a man is but even with his
enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior,
for it is a prince's part to pardon.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Essays_ [1625], "Of Revenge"

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to
an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your
child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your
mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to
yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
--Clara Lucas Balfour [n้e Liddell] (1808—1878)
English novelist and temperance activist.
_Sunbeams for All Seasons: Counsels, Cautions, and Precepts_ [1861 ed.]

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our
crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for
nothing, not even for our virtues.
--Honor้ de Balzac (1799—1850)
French journalist and writer.
Attributed in J. De Finod (ed.)
_A Thousand Flashes of French Wit ..._, p. 179 [1880].

People will always forgive you for being wrong.
What they won't forgive you for is being right.
--attributed to Robert L. Bartley (1937—2003)
American journalist and editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without
lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
Quoted in Clifton Fadiman (ed.) _The American Treasury, 1455-1955_.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when
it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
--Edwin Hubbel Chapin (1814—1880)
American clergyman and author.
_Living Words_ [1861]

I believe any person who asks for forgiveness
has to be prepared to give it.
--Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (b. 1946)
American Democratic statesman and president [1993—2001].
Statement after being acquitted by the Senate [12 Feb. 1999].

Injuries accompanied with insults are never
forgiven; all men, on these occasions, are
good haters, and lay out their revenge at
compound interest.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CCCCLIX [1820]

Who pardons easily invites offense.
--attributed to Pierre Corneille (1606—1684)
French dramatist.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies;
but we do not read that we ought to forgive
our friends.
--Cosimo I de' Medici (1519—1574)
Duke of Florence [1537-1574].
Attributed in "Journal of the American Institute" [October 1835].

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
--Madame Doroth้e Deluzy (1747—1830)
French actress.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou
_Treasury of Thought_ p. 184 [15th ed. 1894].

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she
must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
--Marlene Dietrich [Marie Magdalene Von Losch]
(1901—1992) German-born film actress. Between
1943—1946 she made more than 500 appearances
before Allied troops.
_Marlene Dietrich's ABC_ [1962]

Only a woman will believe in a man who has
once been detected in fraud and falsehood.
--Alexandre Dumas (1802—1870)
French novelist and dramatist.
In Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts about Women_ p. 290 [1882].

I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right.
--Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
American singer and songwriter.
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" [1963 song]

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The only sin which we never forgive in
each other is difference of opinion.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Society and Solitude_, ch. 9 [1870]


[Of Abraham Lincoln:]
His heart was as great as the world, but there
was no room in it to hold a memory of a wrong.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Letters and Social Aims_ [1876] "Greatness"

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Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [September 1733]

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent.
I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
Quoted in Sarah Austin (trans.) _Fragments from German Prose Writers_ [1841].

One must forgive one's enemies,
but not till they are hanged.
--Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.
Quoted in "The Fortnightly Review" [1 March 1870].

The offender never pardons.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
"Indianapolis News" [4 January 1925], as quoted in
Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_ [1993].

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Forgive and forget.
--William Langland (c. 1330—1387)
English poet.
_The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman_ [1377]

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We often forgive those who bore us, but
we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
--Fran็ois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]

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Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence;
forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance
who offered it.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741—1801)
Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics.
In John Timbs
_Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors_ p. 41 [1829].

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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should
he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely,
but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe
to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to
myself.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, XXXV [1820]

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We forgive too little, forget too much.
--Madame Swetchine [Sophie Soymanof] (1782—1857)
Russian-born French writer and salon hostess.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 181 [1908].

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'I can forgive, but I cannot forget,' is only another way
of saying. 'I will not forgive.' — A forgiveness ought to
be like a cancelled note — torn in two and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister; brother of
Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher.
Henry Ward Beecher and Edna Dean Proctor, _Life Thoughts:
Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher_ [1858]

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I never forgive but I always forget.
--Arthur James Balfour (1848—1930)
British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [1920—1925].
Quoted in R. Blake _Conservative Party_ [1970].

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Always forgive your enemies — but never forget their names.
--Robert F. Kennedy (1925—1968)
American Democratic politician.
Quoted in Nancy McPhee _The Second Book of Insults_ [1981].

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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive
and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
--Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)
American psychiatrist.
_The Second Sin_ "Personal Conduct" [1973]

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It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes,
whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.
--Maurice Maeterlinck (1862—1949)
Belgium poet and playwright.
_Pell้as et M้lisande_ [1892]

People will sometimes forgive you the
good you have done them, but seldom
the harm they have done you.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.
_A Writer's Notebook_ [1949]

Let bygones be bygones.
--Francis Nethersole
_Parables_ [1648]

The highest of characters, in my estimation, is his, who is as ready
to pardon the moral errors of mankind, as if he were every day guilty
of some himself; and at the same time as cautious of committing a
fault as if he never forgave one.
--Pliny the Younger or Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (62—c.115)
Roman senator and author of a famous collection of letters.
_Epistles_, VIII, 22

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
_An Essay on Criticism_ [1711]

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To err is human; to blame it on the
other guy is even more human.
--anon.

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Pardon others often, thyself never.
--Publilius Syrus (85—43 B.C.)
Latin writer of mimes who was originally a slave.
Attributed in _The Cottager's Monthly Visitor_, vol. XII [1832].

In general, indulgence for those we know
is rarer than pity for those we know not.
--Antoine de Rivarol (1753—1801)
French man of letters.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 83 [10th ed. 1884].

The memory and the conscience never did, nor
ever will, agree about forgiving injuries.
--George Savile [Lord Halifax] (1633—1695)
English politicial and essayist.
In Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
_The complete works of George Savile, first marquess of Halifax [1912].

Lady Macbeth:
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what's done is done.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Macbeth_, III, ii [1606]

Beware of the man who does not return your blow:
he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive
yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish dramatist and critic.
_Man and Superman_ [1903] "The Revolutionist's Handbook"

The brave only know how to forgive ... a
coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
--Laurence Sterne (1713—1768)
Irish-born English novelist.
"Joseph's History Considered", a sermon in
_The Complete Works of Laurence Sterne_ [1872].

There is no torment like the inner torment of
an unforgiving spirit. It refuses to be soothed,
it refuses to be healed, it refuses to forget.
--Charles R. Swindoll (b. 1934)
American evanegelical Christian pastor.
_Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life_ [1983]

And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
"The Princess" [1847]

'Tis strange what a man may do, and
a woman yet think him an angel.
--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811—1863)
English novelist.
_The History of Henry Esmond_, bk I, ch. 7 [1852]

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
Attributed in Fritz Heider
_The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations_ [1958].

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venial [VEE-nee-uhl; VEEN-yuhl], adjective:
Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable.




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FRANCE / THE FRENCH

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The following advisory for American travellers heading for France was
compiled from information provided by the U.S. State Department, the
Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Food
and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and some
very expensive spy satellites that the French don't know about. It is
intended as a guide for American travellers only and no guarantee of
accuracy is ensured or intended.

General overview: France is a medium-sized foreign country situated
in the continent of Europe. It is an important member of the world
community, though not nearly as important as it thinks. It is bounded
by Germany, Spain, Switzerland and some smaller nations of no
particular consequence and with not very good shopping.

France is a very old country with many treasures, such as the Louvre
and EuroDisney. Among its contributions to western civilization are
champagne, Camembert cheese and the guillotine.

Although France likes to think of itself as a modern nation, air
conditioning is little used and it is next to impossible to get decent
Mexican food. One continuing exasperation for American visitors is
that the people wilfully persist in speaking French, though many will
speak English if shouted at. As in any foreign country, watch your
change at all times.

The People: France has a population of 54 million people, most of
whom drink and smoke a great deal, drive like lunatics, are dangerously
oversexed, and have no concept of standing patiently in line. The French
people are in general gloomy, temperamental, proud, arrogant, aloof,
and undisciplined; and those are their good points.

Most French citizens are Roman Catholic, though you would hardly
guess it from their behavior. Many people are communists, and topless
sunbathing is common. Men sometimes have girls' names like Marie,
and they kiss each other when they hand out medals.

American travellers are advised to travel in groups and to wear
baseball caps and colorful trousers for easier mutual recognition.

Safety: In general, France is a safe destination, though travellers
are advised that, from time to time, it is invaded by Germany. By
tradition, the French surrender more or less at once and, apart from
a temporary shortage of Scotch whisky and increased difficulty in
getting baseball scores and stock market prices, life for the visitor
generally goes on much as before. A tunnel connecting France to
Britain beneath the English Channel has been opened in recent
years to make it easier for the Government to flee to London.

History: France was discovered by Charlemagne in the Dark Ages.
Other important historical figures are Louis XIV, the Huguenots,
Joan of Arc, Jacques Cousteau and Charles de Gaulle, who was
President for many years and is now an airport.

Government: The French form of government is democratic but noisy.
Elections are held more or less continuously, and always result in
a run-off. For administrative purposes, the country is divided into
regions, departments, districts, municipalities, cantons, communes,
villages, cafes, booths and floor tiles. Parliament consists of two
chambers, the Upper and Lower (though, confusingly, they are both
on the ground floor), whose members are either Gaullists or
communists, neither of whom is to be trusted, frankly. Parliament's
principal preoccupations are setting off atomic bombs in the South
Pacific, and acting indignant when anyone complains.

Culture: The French pride themselves on their culture, though it is
not easy to see why. All their songs sound the same, and they have
hardly ever made a movie that you would want to watch for anything
but the nude scenes. And nothing, of course, is more boring than a
French novel (except, perhaps, an evening with a French family ).

Cuisine: Let's face it, no matter how much garlic you put on it, a
snail is just a slug with a shell on its back. Croissants, on the other
hand, are excellent, though it is impossible for most Americans to
pronounce this word. In general, travellers are advised to stick to
cheeseburgers at leading hotels such as Sheraton and Holiday Inn.

Economy: France has a large and diversified economy, second only
to Germany's in Europe, which is surprising because people hardly
work at all. If they are not spending four hours dawdling over lunch,
they are on strike and blocking the roads with their lorries and tractors.
France's principal exports, in order of importance to the economy, are
wine, nuclear weapons, perfume, guided missiles, champagne, high-
calibre weaponry, grenade launchers, landmines, tanks, attack aircraft,
miscellaneous armaments and cheese.

Public holidays: France has more holidays than any other nation in
the world. Among its 361 national holidays are 197 saints' days, 37
National Liberation Days, 16 Declaration of Republic Days, 54 Return
of Charles de Gaulle in Triumph as if he Won the War Single-Handed
Days, 18 Napoleon Sent into Exile Days, 17 Napoleon Called Back
from Exile Days, and 112 France is Great and the Rest of the World
is Rubbish Days. Other important holidays are National Nuclear
Bomb Day (January 12), the Feast of St Brigitte Bardot Day
(March 1), and National Guillotine Day (November 12).

Conclusion: France enjoys a rich history, a picturesque and varied
landscape, and a temperate climate. In short, it would be a very
nice country if it weren't inhabited by French people.

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No more wars for me at any price! Except against
the French. If there's ever a war with them, I'll go
like a shot.
--Edmund Blunden (1896—1974)
English poet, critic, and scholar.
In Robert Graves _Goodbye to All That_, p. 240 [1929].

France is the only place where you can make love
in the afternoon without people hammering on your
door.
--Barbara Cartland (1901—2000)
British writer of romantic fiction.
In "Guardian" [24 December 1984].

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How can anyone govern a nation that has two
hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
--Charles de Gaulle (1890—1970)
French soldier and statesman, President [1959—1969].
Quoted in Ernest Mignon _Les Mots du G้n้ral_ [1962].

The shortest joke in the French language is probably FFL
[Forces Francaises Libres]. We were 54,873 fighters with
De Gaulle. Let's take into account the internal resistance:
after the war 48,000 Medailles de la Resistance were
awarded, rather generously. So it is with about 100,000
outlaws that we managed to save a bit of the honour of
a country of 30 million people.
--Maurice Druon (1918—2009)
French novelist.
(Source unknown)

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The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay,
I heard the laughter of her heart
In ev'ry street caf้.
--Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960)
American songwriter.
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" [1941]

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman
and an Englisman seems to be this: the one thinks
everything right that is French, the other thinks
everything wrong that is not English.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims_, CCCXXXIV [1823]

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LOUIS XVI: Is it a revolt?
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT: No, Sire, it is a revolution.
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Fran็ois-Alexandre-Fr้d้ric, Duke (1747—1827)
French educator and social reformer.
Upon learning at Versailles of the fall of the Bastille [1789].

[On France:]
I would have loved it — without the French.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
Letter to Catherine Carswell [28 May 1920].

When Paris sneezes, the rest of Europe catches a cold.
--Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773—1859)
Austrian politician and statesman.
1830 remark quoted in "Journal of Politics" [August 1949].

The French are a logical people, which is one
reason the English dislike them so intensely.
The other is that they own France, a country
which we have always judged to be much too
good for them.
--Christopher Morley (1890—1957)
American journalist, novelist, and poet.
_A Musing Morley_ [1974]

You must consider every man your enemy who
speaks ill of your king; and . . . you must hate
a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
--Horatio Nelson (1758—1805)
British naval commander.
Quoted in Robert Southey
_The Life of Nelson_, vol. 1 [2 vols., 1813].

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The next night I called my girlfriend who was back
in the States and, no doubt, happily contemplating
the sterlng silver Elsa Peretti refrigerator magnet
I'd bought her to make up for Christmas. She's
spent a lot of time in Paris.

"Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's
the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine." she
said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole,"
I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's
crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's
rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described
France," she said.

--P.J. O'Rourke (b. 1947)
American political satirist.
_Holidays in Hell_ [1989], "Among the Euro-Weenies"

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What is not clear is not French.
--Antoine de Rivarol (1753—1801)
French man of letters.
_Discours sur l'Universalit้ de la Langue Fran็aise_ [1784]

That battle, resounding down history as the first Battle of the
Marne, was won by the Allies, who in four hot, dusty September
days turned almost certain and final defeat into victory. . . .
The defeated Kluck, who had had a poor opinion of the enemy
forces he had pushed back so easily the first weeks, understood
this afterward. 'The reason that transcends all others' for what
happened on the Marne, he said in 1918, 'was the extraordinary
. . . aptitude of the French soldier to recover quickly. That men
will let themselves be killed where they stand — that is well-known
and counted on in every plan of battle. But that men who have
retreated for ten days, sleeping on the ground and half dead with
fatigue, should be able to take up their rifles and attack when the
bugle sounds, is a thing upon which we never counted. It was a
possibility not studied in our war academy.'
--William L. Shirer (1904—1993)
American journalist, historian, and novelist.
_The Collapse of the Third Republic_ [1969]

[Groundskeeper Willie's characterization of the French:]
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
"The Simpsons" [30 April 1995]

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing
cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would
never had been burnt.
--G. M. Trevelyan (1876—1962)
English historian.
_English Social History_ [1942]

^

James Whistler (1834—1903)
American painter.

Whistler, priding himself on his fluency in French,
insisted on doing the ordering in a fashionable
Paris restaurant. His companion tried to intervene
and was told, 'I am quite capable of ordering a
meal in France without your assistance.' 'Of course
you are,' said his friend placatingly, 'but I just
distinctly heard you order a flight of steps.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andr้ Bernard [2000 ed.]

^

Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace
of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a
look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which
announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_The Luck of the Bodkins_ [1936]

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A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France
would result in Linoleum Blownapart.



FRAUD/S

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see: "DECEPTION" for related links


What fairer cloak than courtesy for fraud?
--Sir William Alexander (c. 1576—1640)
Scottish courtier, statesman, and poet.
Attributed in S. Austin Allibone
_Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson_, p. 336 [1875].

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
--Philip James Bailey (1816—1902)
English poet.
_Festus_ [1839]

The devil's most devilish when respectable.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861)
English poet.
"Aurora Leigh" [1857]

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In Texas, Kennedy's 46,000-vote margin was the closest statewide race
there since 1948, when Kennedy's running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson,
won a Senate seat by 87 votes (the origin of the nickname "Landslide
Lyndon"). Morton's operatives, aided by local Republicans, uncovered
plenty of political chicanery. For instance: In Fannin County, which had
4,895 registered voters, 6,138 votes were cast, three-quarters of them
for Kennedy. In one precinct of Angelia County, 86 people voted and
the final tally was 147 for Kennedy, 24 for Nixon.

On and on it went. The Republicans demanded a recount, claiming that
it would give them 100,000 votes and victory. John Connally, the state
Democratic chairman, said the Republicans were just "haggling for
headlines" and predicted that a recount would give Kennedy another
50,000 votes.

But there was no recount. The Texas Election Board, composed entirely
of Democrats, had already certified Kennedy as the winner.

In Chicago, where Kennedy won by more than 450,000 votes, local
reporters uncovered so many stories of electoral shenanigans — including
voting by the dead — that the Chicago Tribune concluded that "the
election of November 8 was characterized by such gross and palpable
fraud as to justify the conclusion that [Nixon] was deprived of victory."

--Peter Carlson,
"Another Race To the Finish"
_Washington Post_ [17 November 2000]

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and
duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another.
A knave would rather quarrel with a brother-knave than with
a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest
man, than with both. He can combat a fool by management
and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations.
But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled, nor bribed.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words_, CXL [1826 ed.]


The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down,
and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will
always find faith wherever impostors will find impudence.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
Attributed in _Extracts From Ancient and Modern
Authors_, [pub. E. Bridgewater, London, 1828].

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Knaves imagine nothing can be done without Knavery.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.
Comp., _Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs_, 3135 [1732]

Th' feller that agrees with ever'thing you
say is either a fool er he is gettin' ready
t'skin you.
--Frank McKinney (Kin) Hubbard (1868—1930)
American humorist.
_Back Country Folks_ [1913]

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters
of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes
his enemies by stratagem is as much to be praised as he
who overcomes them by force.
--Niccol๒ Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.
_The Discourses_ [1517] iii. ch. 40.

All men are frauds. The only difference between
them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_A Little Book in C Major_ [1916]

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever
after not believed even if they speak the truth.
--attributed to Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 B.C.— c. 50 A.D.)
The versifier of Aesop's Fables in Latin.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Merchant of Venice_, I, iii [1596—1598]

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
--attributed to Sophocles (496?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

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supposititious [suh-poz-uh-TISH-uhs], adjective:
1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being
what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit.
2. Hypothetical; supposed.


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