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Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.

— Pierre Beaumarchais Le Barbier de Séville (1773)

Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout.

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Be commonplace and creeping, and everything is within your reach. | Ramage (1866) p. 3

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