Yet the plain truth is, the French may give out next year for lack of men.

I do not mean that they will quit, but that their fighting strength will have passed its maximum and that they will be able to play only a sort of second part.

Except the British and the French, there's no nation in Europe worth a tinker's damn when you come to the real scratch.

The whole continent is rotten or tyrannical or yellow-dog.

I wouldn't give Long Island or Moore County for the whole of continental Europe, with its kings and itching palms.
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