“I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.”

—  Jacques Delille

J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas
Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.

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