We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet. (Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle)

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

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