“It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.”

— George Sand , Indiana

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.
Indiana, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1832); Sylvia Raphael (trans.) Indiana (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) p. 23

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Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.

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French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore D… 1804–1876

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