Quotation by Michel de Montaigne

There is nothing like arousing appetite and affection; otherwise all you make out of them is asses loaded with books.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. "Of the Education of Children," The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 26, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).
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