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| | Letters from Voltaire, 20 June 1733 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Such a novel brings the means of life to the author who wrote it, the publisher who sells it, to the moulder, the printer, the paper-maker, the binder, the carrier--and finally to the bad wine-shop where they all take their money. |
 | | Further, the book amuses for an hour or two a few women who like novelty in literature as in everything. |
 | | You, sir, who have at least some small opportunity of giving good advice, try and rouse us from this stupid lethargy, and, if you can, do something for literature, which has done so much for France. |
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