Monday, August 22, 2022

Wise Negligence

Attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, in: Frederick Hilles, The Literary Career Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1936, ch. I., Education, p. 3:

If you take too much care of yourself, Nature will cease to take care of you.

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