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Il vaut mieux gagner de quoi vivre en plaisant au plus grand nombre que gagner la gloire en ne plaisant qu'à quelques-uns.
Je vis en mourant, je brûle dans la glace, je tremble dans le feu, j'espère sans espoir, je reste que je pars.
Une large et profonde rivière divisait en deux un vaste domaine. Sur cette rivière, on avait jeté un pont; au bout du pont, il y avait une potence et une salle où siégeaient en permanence quatre juges chargés d'appliquer la loi édictée par le propriétaire de la rivièr ...more
Je vis en mourant, je brûle dans la glace, je tremble dans le feu, j'espère sans espoir, je reste que je pars.
Une large et profonde rivière divisait en deux un vaste domaine. Sur cette rivière, on avait jeté un pont; au bout du pont, il y avait une potence et une salle où siégeaient en permanence quatre juges chargés d'appliquer la loi édictée par le propriétaire de la rivièr ...more

“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Oh this is a funny book! A funny, and very long and tedious at times books. Because it’s so long there really is a lot of “something good in it.” :-)
The best parts were the characters that described perfectly the crazy people in my own life and the arguably crazier people around them supporting them in their ridiculous decisions!
There were parts in the first book that were tedious a ...more

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