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For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
— Michael Dirda
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My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.
— Michael Dirda
Tags: out, wife, me, nature
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
— Michael Dirda
Tags: swing, sometimes, house, wise
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
— Michael Dirda
Tags: find, reading, you, friendship
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.
— Michael Dirda
Tags: enough, live, job, family
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.
— Michael Dirda
Tags: pleasure, company, some, information
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