It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man. (Francis Bacon)

It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.

Francis Bacon

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