• The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

    Nicolas Chamfort: The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
    Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”