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20 years ago

My oh-so-literary friends - please help before I convince myself I'm making things up....

I have part of a quotation running through my head - can't get it out, can't remember it fully, can't find where it's from. I'm pretty sure I've read it in both French and English, (in other words, translated to english from a french source), and I haven't read French literature (in French at least) for years, so it's old.

Something like "we must cultivate (tend?) our...." - what??? Roses??? Sheep??????

I thought, since I first came up with roses, that it was from "Le Petit Prince", but I just re-read that last night (in English) and it's not there. Perhaps in Candide???

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance....

Litlbit

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carolyn_ky
20 years ago
"Excellently observed," answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden."

The last line in Candide by Voltaire.
litlbit
Original Author
20 years ago
Ah, thank you, Carolyn!! My fevered brain can rest, now!! Gosh, I think I read that in 11th or 12th grade. I'd better pull it out again. What would Mme. Nemir (my high school French teacher) think of me...

I had had the thought that it might be "garden", but got stuck on roses....

Thanks again!

Litlbit
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