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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.364
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!