A 18:19 98-11-17 -0800, Rick McGowan a �crit :
>Unicoders...
>
>Suppose you had only one sentence, gleaned from the corpus of "classical
>literature" or poetry of your exalted mother tongue, in which to capture
that
>language's beauty and cultural essence. What would it be? What sentence
>sums up everything? What great aphorism makes the patriotic pulses pound
and
>sets all eyes to watering?
>
>[...]
>
>But in French, it probably is not:
>
> la chanson d'un dada�ste
> qui avait dada au coeur
> -- Tristan Tzara
[Alain] :
I recently gave one which I think, says everything [ (; ] :
... car la parole est d'argent, mais le silence est d'or
--Jean de la Fontaine
Alain LaBont�
Qu�bec
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