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When i need a word and do not find it in french, i select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. such is my fate.
-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
When i need a word and do not find it in french, i select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. such is my fate.
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