Excerpt from Stray Shots
"If I were not a Frenchman, I should wish to he an Englishman," said a French Minister, with a complimentary how, to an English Minister. "If I were not an Englishman, I should wish to be one," was the blunt reply. Here Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Stray Shots (Classic Reprint) (Edward Sullivan)