"Un an de lait suffit. Les enfants qui tettent trop deviennent des sots. Je suis pour les dictons populaires."
— Honoré de Balzac

January 1, 1970

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A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings. — Part I, ch. XXXVIII