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“The Church should adapt itself to the manners of the time, since it seems only too clear that the manners of the time adapt themselves less and less to the Church.”

Church Manners Changing Times Clochemerle

Book:Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

“If sharing meant receiving, well and good, but if it was a question of giving, then to hell with it, the Clochemerlins would cry out in chorus. Sad to relate, these bumpkins knew nothing about Hegel or Marx. They each had their little patch of ground inherited from previous generations, their trade secrets handed down from father to son, and they could see no farther.”

Sharing Hegel Marx Clochemerle

Book:Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

“In a small community sex constitutes the most accessible and least extravagant pastime of all, rustic love being rarely mercenary.”

Sex Clochemerle Small Village

Book:Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of others, the so-called chronic ones, which destroy only slowly.”

Doctors Illnesses Reputations Clochemerle

Book:Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]

Source: Clochemerle-les-Bains [English language]