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When you want to drain the marsh, you don't consult the frogs.

— Delphine de Girardin

Quand on veut dessécher un marais, on ne fait pas en voter les grenouilles!

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The minds whose mission is to destroy prejudices are precisely those who have the most prejudices and profess them most blindly.

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