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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Van Wyck Brooks
Swans, Profound, Wells
Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.