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Men wish to hear no stories but those about the great and powerful, which are no use to anyone.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Paul et Virginie (1788)

Les hommes ne veulent connaître que l'histoire des grands et des rois, qui ne sert à personne.

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