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On ne rit plus, on sourit aujourd'hui,
Et nos plaisirs sont voisins a l'eunui.

— François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis Réflexions sur les passions et sur les goûts (1741)

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Translation: To-day we only smile, we laugh no more, And e'en our very pleasures seem to bore. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 170.

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