The more things change, the more they are the same.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

Alphonse Karr

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Change

Author

Alphonse Karr

Source

Les Guepes

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Karr, Alphonse. Les Guepes. Au Bureau du Figaro, c. 1849.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

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