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