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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
-Victor Hugo

Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.

Now nothing is real except French wine.

And trade is art, and art’s philosophy, in Paris.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language