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>>Naive is originally a french word, so the meaning may have been a little different when it has been adapted to other languages. This is also why french is very often used in the diplomacy, since french words normally have more clearly defined meanings.
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>French? No wonder an Englishman didn't like it ;-)
"The French don't care what they *do* actually, as long as they pronounce it properly ... "
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
