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That's fame: just a cigar with the hot end and ash in your mouth.

— Alphonse Daudet

C'est ça la gloire. Un bon cigare dans la bouche par le côté du feu et de la cendre.

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You will see that the only liar in the Midi, if there is one, is the sun; everything that he touches he exaggerates.

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The man of the Midi does not lie, he deceives himself. He does not always speak the truth but he believes he speaks it.

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Men grow old, but they do not ripen.

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How many men with libraries over which one might write "For external use", as on druggists' labels.

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