# Montcalm and Wolfe

- Author: [Francis Parkman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-parkman.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-parkman/montcalm-and-wolfe

## Quotes

> France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

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> The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

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> Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

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> The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards.

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