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So fertile are our hills, so rich the plains below,
Said a Gascon of Bordeaux,
That if we planted sheaths, then straightway knives would grow.

— Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)

Nous avons de si riches plaines,
Et de si fertiles côteaux,
Disait un Gascon de Bordeaux,
Que si l'on y plantait des gaines,
Il y pousserait des couteaux.

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