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Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître; Il l’est, le fut, ou le doit être. (Whatso’er thou art, thy master see! He was, or is, or is to be.)
Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître; Il l’est, le fut, ou le doit être. (Whatso’er thou art, thy master see! He was, or is, or is to be.)
Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Francis M. Voltaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 160 · printed citation: Voltaire. · compiler notes excluded
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