searching for a quotation

["O'Connell Terence" <t-oconnell@nwu.edu>]

This is not a book question. But perhaps the readers of ExLibris will know
the answer.
Someone has written something along the lines of--"Everything has already
been said. But since nobody was listening, it is always necessary to begin
again."
Sources for the first sentence can of course be found in Bartlett's.
Anatole France has been suggested for the whole, but what is the citation?
Please reply to me, not to the list.

t-oconnell@nwu.edu