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And then some pearls like
“The French conception of society is hierarchical and administrative, as her government has so long been. Every social situation has its appropriate gestures and its almost fixed vocabulary, and nothing is more puzzling to the French than the fact that the English.. have only two or three ways of beginning and ending their letter”

A bit old in terms of analysis. World and France changed since 1920 Ex
“Asceticism means the serene ability to get on without comfort, and comfort is an Anglo-Saxon invention which the Latins have never really understood or felt the want of.”
Not true any longer

“No nation can have grown-up ideas till it has a ruling caste of grown-up men and women; and it is possible to have a ruling caste of grown-up men and women only in a civilisation where the power of each sex is balanced by that of the other.”

VOTE WOMEN IN.NOVEMBER 2018

Some comments are appropriate
“If a man piles up millions in order to pile them; up, having already all he needs to live humanly and decently, his occupation is neither interesting in itself, nor conducive to any sort of real social development in the money-maker or in those about him. No life is more sterile than one into which nothing enters to balance such an output of energy.”

The Frenchman and the American want to have a voice in governing their country, and the German prefers to be governed by professionals, as long as they make him comfortable and give him what he wants.
*** They say corporations have no souls; neither have governments that are not answerable to a free people for their actions.” ***