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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Guy de Maupassant
Weight, Politics, Ancestor
"On the Water". Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.