Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Mathilde returned and strolled past the drawing-room windows; she saw him busily engaged in describing to Madame de Fervaques the old ruined castles that crown the steep banks of the Rhine and give them so distinctive a character. He was beginning to acquit himself none too badly in the use of the sentimental and picturesque language which is called wit in certain drawing-rooms.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''

America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven.