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

January 1, 1970

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Variant: Fourteen? The good Lord had only ten. — 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.