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Alexis de Tocqueville1 quote
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. On either side it is pride, but understood in a different way. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Horatio Nelson1 quote
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 · 1813