Quote of the Day
Posted By Russ Emerson on March 29, 2004 at 12:42 pm
Has anyone noticed the propensity of the French to convert an unhappy necessity into a virtue? Their foodstuffs were inedible, so they invented sauces; their plumbing was medieval, so they invented perfume; and their military was humiliated wherever it set foot, so they invented “diplomacy,” by which they meant, first, collaboration and, second, appeasement.
OpinionJournal reader Jean-Pierre Schachter, quoted by James Taranto
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