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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

To Theuriet

By Voltaire (1694–1778)

YES, I will scold you till I have cured you of your indolence. You live as if man had been created only to sup; and you exist only between 10 P.M. and 2 A.M. When you are old and deserted, will it be a consolation to you to say, “Formerly I drank champagne in good company”?