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  • The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

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    "Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an Appendix, Containing a Memoir of His Life". Book by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins), p. 72, 1829.
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The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness. - Francois Fenelon
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