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Gems of oratory, from speeches in the French Chamber of Deputies, have been collected by an interested listener, who declares that a volume, would make a, very amusing book. Here are a few of his selections: — “ f thank you, M.. Le Ministry, tor having listened to me with a benevolent eye.’’ _ _ , “You are tying their hands in such a manner that they do not know on which foot they are dancing.” “A crisis of great gravity—a mortal crisis—was the result; but happily it had no serious consequences.” “We ought not to suppress the first steps of their little brains.” “The heart which beats under the smock of the peasant is often as brave as that which beats under the top hat of the bourgeois.” “The League of Nations is a Swiss cheese, of which the principal ingredient is English salt.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5
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142MIXED METAPHORS Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 5
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