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The English take their pleasures sadly after the fashion of their country.

— Maximilien de Béthune

Les anglais s’amusent tristement selon l’usage de leur pays.

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Notes from Wikiquote

The quotation is also attributed to Froissart: see Notes and Queries, 3rd s., vol. 10 (4 August 1866), p. 99, and 5th s., vol. 10 (17 August 1878), p. 136; William Hazlitt, "Merry England", in The New Monthly Magazine, vol. 14, no. 60 (1825), p. 558—ils se rejouissoient tristement selon la coutume de leur pays.

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