"To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones."

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Roman Catholic clergyAuthors from FranceClergy from FrancePeople from Saint-Malo
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Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 7