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French language is nothing but a Latin
The popular speech, which will later become the French language, is nothing but a Latin patois , and is not admitted to the honour of being written.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

found life if not blissful at least
I did resist him, by accustoming myself to take an interest in all things; and, by schooling myself into patience, I found life, if not blissful, at least endurable.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

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