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> [Back then we were better-behaved than you young boystoday; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French:Mademoiselle, from the first time I seen you, on the presbytery patio, I have been transported with the feeling of love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/back-then-we-were-better-behaved-than-you-young-boystoday-we-were/)

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## More by Jacques Roumain

> [The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/the-old-men-of-the-village-of-mahoti-re-say-that-the-mistress-of-the/)

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> [She sang a song that sounds like life; I mean it was sad. Délira knew no other types ofsongs. She didn't sing loud, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/she-sang-a-song-that-sounds-like-life-i-mean-it-was-sad-d-lira-knew/)

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> [As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/as-they-say-when-a-man-begins-to-have-bad-luck-even-clabber-can-break/)

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> [Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/misfortune-is-never-invited-and-it-comes-and-sits-at-the-table/)

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> [And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/and-at-dawn-the-drums-still-beat-on-the-sleepless-plain-like-an/)

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> [The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/the-sacrifice-to-legba-was-completed-the-master-of-the-crossroads-had/)

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> [Experience is the cane of the blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/experience-is-the-cane-of-the-blind/)

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> [You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/you-cannot-eat-a-cluster-of-grapes-at-once-but-it-is-very-easy-if-you/)

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> [A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/a-tree-is-made-to-live-in-peace-in-the-color-of-day-and-in-friendship/)

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> [Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/peasants-are-a-rude-lot-and-hard-life-has-hardened-their-hearts-but/)

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> [Back then we were better-behaved than you young boystoday; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French:Mademoiselle, from the first time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/back-then-we-were-better-behaved-than-you-young-boystoday-we-were/)

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> [Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/water-its-sunny-track-in-the-plain-its-splashing-in-the-garden-canal/)

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> [At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/at-noon-you-walk-across-a-river-it-is-dry-with-not-this-much-water-it/)

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> [Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-roumain/heaven-has-its-business-and-earth-has-its-business-those-are-two/)

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