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|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur. Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do. The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br /> | |66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur. Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do. The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite> | ||
|67 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite> | |||
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