“You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.”

— Alphonse Daudet, book Letters From My Windmill

Voyez-vous, mes enfants, quand le blé est mûr, il faut le couper; quand le vin est tiré, il faut le boire.
Lettres de mon moulin (1869; repr. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1882) p. 112; John P. Macgregor (trans.) Letters from My Mill (New York: Taplinger, 1967) p. 86.

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