Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Variant: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Context: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
June 1857
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
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