 | Stacy Schiff - 2005 - 540 lapas
...Ignorance 1778 In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand...own language. — Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad Word of the alliance on which America's independence would be founded — her bedrock, her polestar,... | |
 | Jessica Powell - 2006 - 204 lapas
...clapped frantically whenever he gave impassioned speeches in that language. As for the French, however, "in Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them...did succeed in making those idiots understand their language." Sites Twain's former residence 169, rue de I'Universite (7th arr.) Metro: Pont de I'Alma... | |
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Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. 
