“Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?”
Crois-tu qu'on puisse être bien tendre lorsqu'on manque de pain?
Part 1, p. 98; translation p. 48.
L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1731)
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