Re: A Search for Exemplary Sentences

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Nov 18 1998 - 16:50:06 EST

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Alain scripsit:

> ... car la parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or
> --Jean de la Fontaine

For me, the ultimate French quotation is from the translation
of the book of Job (in the Bible), chapter 40, verse 15:

"Voici l'hippopotame."

(The Vulgate: Ecce behemoth; the KJV: "Behold now behemoth".)

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.

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