For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the...

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.