“ I like to take life easy, and it is too much trouble to be intellectual. ”
Molière, The Learned Ladies (1672). copy citation
| Author | Molière |
|---|---|
| Source | The Learned Ladies |
| Topic | trouble life |
| Date | 1672 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Charles Heron Wall |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Learned_Women |
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“I have for some time now been tormented at finding in you a want of intellectuality, but I have thought of a means of remedying this defect.
HEN. You take unnecessary trouble for my sake. I have no love for learned discourses. I like to take life easy, and it is too much trouble to be intellectual. Such ambition does not trouble my head, and I am perfectly satisfied, mother, with being stupid. I prefer to have only a common way of talking, and not to torment myself to produce fine words.
PHI. That may be;”
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