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And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives.

— François Rabelais Pantagruel (1532)

Et là commençay à penser qu'il est bien vray ce que l'on dit, que la moitié du monde ne sçait comment l'aultre vit.

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