I have never set much store by books, Andre; and I have never known anything but trouble to come out of learning.

It unsettles a man.
It complicates his views of life, destroys the simplicity which makes for peace of mind and happiness.

Let this miserable affair be a warning to you, Andre.

You are, yourself, too prone to these new-fashioned speculations upon a different constitution of the social order.

You see what comes of it.