Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 191)
“Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous.”
De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
Act I, scene ix
The Marriage of Figaro (1778)
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De toute les choses sérieuses, le mariage est certainement la plus bouffonne.
Le Mariage de Figaro, 1778
Variant: De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
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