“They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser…”
— Karen Blixen, book Anecdotes of Destiny
Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)
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