If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used t...o think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not ei...ther vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »