"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant."
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Desiderius Erasmus, Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
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