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WIST Quotations has moved!

A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:

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We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

[On ne trouve guère dans un livre que ce qu’on y met. Mais dans les beaux livres, l’esprit trouve une place où il peut mettre beaucoup de choses.]
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WIST · Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 23 "Des Qualités de l’Écrivain [Of the Qualities of Writers]," ¶ 212 (1850 ed.) [tr. Lyttelton (1899), ch. 22, ¶ 98] - Joubert, Joseph | WIST QuotationsWe find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. [On ne trouve guère dans un livre que ce qu’on y met. Mais dans les beaux livres, l’esprit trouve une place où il peut mettre beaucoup de…
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