"Les chefs-d'oeuvre ne sont jamais que des tentatives heureuses."
— George Sand

January 1, 1970

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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. — François le Champi, Introduction; Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif (New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 24