Affamés, ils portent les gerbes... (they carry the sheaves, but still go hungry) Job 24:10
"M. Bonnet, here are your working women, silk workers, spinners, weavers; they are shivering pitifully under their patched cotton dresses, yet it is they who have spun and woven the silk robes of the fashionable women of all Christendom". Paul Lafargue, in The right to be lazy (1883). Highly recommended. Although, to be honest, Lafargue's prose is much better in French -and come to think of it, so is the Bible.
"M. Bonnet, here are your working women, silk workers, spinners, weavers; they are shivering pitifully under their patched cotton dresses, yet it is they who have spun and woven the silk robes of the fashionable women of all Christendom". Paul Lafargue, in The right to be lazy (1883). Highly recommended. Although, to be honest, Lafargue's prose is much better in French -and come to think of it, so is the Bible.
2 comments:
i kissing is better in french, too.
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All things are better in French, that's the schocking truth! We undeservedly privileged French people try not to rub it in too much, that's all. Noblesse oblige.
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