Vulgar words in The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 05 (Page 1)
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And, in truth, we yet see, that nothing can be more ingenious and pleasing than the children of France; but they ordinarily deceive the hope and expectation that have been conceived of them; and grown up to be men, have nothing extraordinary or worth taking notice of: I have heard men of good understanding say, these colleges of ours to which we send our young people (and of which we have but too many) make them such animals as they are.--[Hobbes said that if he Had been at college as long as other people he should have been as great a blockhead as they.