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Nowadays, whatever is not worth saying is sung.

— Pierre Beaumarchais Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Aujourd'hui, ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.

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That which is not worth speaking they sing. | Hoyt's (1922) p. 712

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