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J’ai été informé, chers amis, que vous aviez tenu au Parlement européen des réunions couronnées de succès.
I have been informed that your meetings at the European Parliament have been crowned with success.
Si vous aviez tenu un bar aussi longtemps que moi, vous n'attendriez pas autant de la race humaine.
Doc, if you'd been tending bar as long as I have, you wouldn't expect so much out of the human race.
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