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"French"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"But if the brain be at the same time well framed and instructed, it is a fruitful and well sown soil, that produces a hundred fold to what it received."
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: January 1762
"Richardson sème dans les cœurs des germes de vertu qui y restent d’abord oisifs et tranquilles: ils y sont secrètement, jusqu’à ce qu’il se présente une occasion qui les remue et les fasse éclore. [Richardson sows in our hearts the seeds of virtue which at first remain still and inactive: their ...
preview | full record— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)