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A quotation from Montesquieu

To delight in reading is to trade life’s dreary moments for moments of pure joy.
 
[Aimer à lire, c’est faire un échange des heures d’ennui que l’lon doit avoir en sa vie contre des heures délicieuses.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 1632 / 1143 (1720-1755) [ed. Guterman (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montesquieu/78314/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 27, 2024

A quotation from Stevenson, Robert Louis:

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/3734/

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Essay (1888-12), "A Christmas Sermon," sec. 2, Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 4 - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. Originally written in the winter of 1887-88.…

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