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For all Aristotle may state au contraire,
Tobacco’s divine; nought with it can compare.

— Thomas Corneille

Quoi qu’en dise Aristote et sa docte cabale,
Le tabac est divin, il n’est rien qui n’égale.

Original text (French)

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Thomas Corneille’s comedy is a versification of the prose of Moliere’s play of the same name, which opens with (Sganarelle to Guzman), Quoi que puisse dire Aristote et toute la philosophie, il n’est rien d’égal au tabac.—"Whatever Aristotle and all the philosophers may say, nothing can be compared to tobacco."

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