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Examples
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I can't resist adding this quotation from "Candide": "Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
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So a cold-eyed disgust with the world leads to something not too distant from Voltaire's cultiver son jardin.
La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq – review George Walden 2010
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Tue 10/06/09 10: 53 AM the sentence in french was ‘Il faut cultiver son jardin’, cultivate your garden
'Gossip Girl' recap: Serena gets a taste of showbiz | EW.com 2009
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Il faut cultiver notre jardin … from → Paul Anderson
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And in "Garden" he offers his version of Voltaire's "Il faut cultiver notre jardin", urging a friend and, one supposes, himself: "Look to your life,/to your one given garden."
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I can't resist adding this quotation from "Candide": "Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
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PLV: There's a saying from Voltaire's Candide: "Il faut cultiver notre jardin," the essence of which points to the importance of taking care of your inner values.
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Frederick the Great is said to have addressed these words to his nephew, “Je puis vous assurer, par mon expérience personelle, que ce plaisir est peu agréable à cultiver.”
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Au XIXième siècle, beaucoup d'Anglais sont partis en Australie pour y cultiver la vigne.
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Au XIXième siècle, beaucoup d'Anglais sont partis en Australie pour y cultiver la vigne.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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