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Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why, God Almighty has only Ten!

— Georges Clemenceau The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-worship (1941)

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As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson | Original French, as quoted in The End of an Age, and Other Essays (1948) by William Ralph Inge, p. 139: Quatorze? Le bon Dieu n'a que dix.

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Fourteen? The good Lord had only ten.

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