“There are bundles and bundles.”

— Molière , book Le Médecin malgré lui

Original: (fr) Il y a fagots et fagots.
Source: Le Médecin malgré lui (1666), Act i, scene 6. In this context, a fagot is a bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together.

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French playwright and actor 1622–1673

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