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Why Egypt should be of such importance either to the French or to Us I never could discover and I have always thought the Expedition there the foolishest part, perhaps the only foolish part of Bonaparte's Conduct, unless perhaps he had some views in it connected with the internal Politicks of France of which we are not informed, or (which I have always suspected) that he had a desire to be out of the way of either accepting or refusing the command of an army destined to invade England.
charles james fox— Letter to H. E. Fox (15 May 1801), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 168.
The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), XI.
