“Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.”

—  Jules Verne, book The Mysterious Island

La nécessité est, d’ailleurs, de tous les maîtres, celui qu’on écoute le plus et qui enseigne le mieux.
Part I, ch. XVII
The Mysterious Island (1874)

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