Remember that there are at least six millions of people in Languedoc.' "My mouth was covered with soap-suds, and I could not answer him for some time.

Then I said, 'But a hundred thousand persons at most know how to read, and twenty thousand of them can scarcely be able to enjoy your works.' "'Well, sir, I am content with that amount.

Perhaps you have at Paris more than one writer who possesses his twenty thousand readers.

My little reputation would soon carry me astray if I ventured to address all Europe.

The voice that appears sonorous in a little place is not heard in the midst of a vast plain.