On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… everlasting evenings which are devoted to the dull vacuity of fashionable conversation, or the ad repetitions of card assemblies, and to store the famished mind with a little stock of thought and sentiment, in such a society as the Lycée! … everlasting evenings which are devoted to the dull vacuity of fashionable conversation, or the ad repetitions of card assemblies, and to store the famished mind with a little stock of thought and sentiment, in such a society as the Lycée!" …
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