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" ... age, will not seem thrown away. Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him,, we think, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 180
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...hour of meeting and of farewell. 9467 9480 No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. 8 and to the Germans that of - the air! 9482 It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them....
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Carlyle's Works, Volumes 13-14

Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 1106 pages
...connected with him, we tiiink, that has reached this country, is his saying, imported ly Madame de Stac'l, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics : — " Providence has given to the French the ein1 .n- of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans •.Lit of — the air!" Of this...
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