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library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What
 
library is disgusting even to think of. What paper! What ink! What
 
scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said that
 
scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said that
man was a featherless biped? And then, I met a pretty girl of my acquaintance,
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man was a featherless biped?[[51]] And then, I met a pretty girl of my acquaintance,
 
who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called Floreal, and who is
 
who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called Floreal, and who is
 
delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, because a wretch yesterday,
 
delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, because a wretch yesterday,
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Woe to the vanquished!
 
Woe to the vanquished!
 
==="Featherless biped"===
 
Bipède sans plume: biped without feathers — pen. <ref name="hapgood">Hugo, Victor. ''Les Misérables. Complete in Five Volumes.'' Trans. Isabel F Hapgood. Project Gutenberg eBook, 2008.</ref>
 
  
 
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