Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Velay

Many are the mighty things, and nought is more mighty than man. . . . He masters by his devices the tenant of the fields.

SOPHOCLES.

Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

JOB.

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