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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

— Anatole France The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)

L'homme est ainsi fait qu'il ne se délasse d'un travail que par un autre.

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Pt. II, ch. 4

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