"Quand une chose a été dite et bien dite, n'ayez aucun scrupule, prenez-la, copiez."
— Anatole France

January 1, 1970

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When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. — As quoted in Anatole France en pantoufles by Jean-Jacques Brousson (1924); published in English as Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson (1925), trans. John Pollock [Read Books, 2007, ], p. 56