Saturday, August 03, 2019

 

Love of Reading

Montesquieu (1689-1755), My Thoughts, tr. Henry C. Clark (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2012), p. 474 (#1632):
To love to read is to make an exchange of the inevitable hours of boredom in one's life, for some delightful hours.
In French, from Montesquieu, Pensées et fragments inédits, Tome II (Bordeaux: Imprimerie de G. Gounouilhou, 1901), p. 122:
Aimer à lire, c'est faire un échange des heures d'ennui que l'on doit avoir dans sa vie, contre des heures délicieuses.

Charles Spencelayh, Morning Chapter

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:10 AM


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