Quotation by Michel de Montaigne

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. "Of the Affections of Fathers For Their Children," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 8, Abel Langelier, Paris (1588).
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