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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

— George Sand

Les chefs-d'oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses.

Original text (French)

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Notes from Wikiquote

François le Champi, Introduction; Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif (New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 24

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