"The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are."
— France

January 1, 1970

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Francis Bacon, "Of Seeming Wise", in Essays (1625); Brian Vickers (ed.) The Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 389.