“Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Les gens sans esprit ressemblent aux mauvaises herbes qui se plaisent dans les bons terrains, et ils aiment d'autant plus être amusés qu'ils s'ennuient eux-mêmes.
Source: The Vicar of Tours (1832), Ch. I.

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