
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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We can forgive a man for making a usuful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is to admire it intensely.
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Le Portrait de Dorian Gray ('), 1890
Variante: Nous pouvons pardonner à un homme d’avoir fait une chose utile aussi longtemps qu’il ne l’admire pas.
Alexis ou le Traité du vain combat / Le Coup de grâce