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  1. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal. "Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.
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  2. Susanna Clarke _ Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

    Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
    book-quotehumourlanguages

  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    'Banished men should never speak their native tongue; it comes bitter from their mouth. And this language suits a traitor better, I think; drips off one's teeth like sugar-syrup.'
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  4. David Sedaris _ Me Talk Pretty One Day

    Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages."I hate you," she said to me one afternoon. Her English was flawless. "I really, really hate you." Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help taking it personally.
    book-quotehumorfrenchlanguages

  5. Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love

    It took seven languages to make me; it would have been nice if I could have spoken just one. But I couldn't, so he leaned down and kissed me.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Luck of the Bodkins

    Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
    book-quotehumorfrenchenglishmen
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