Tesla on Voltaire
``I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often
got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works
of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on
one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written
while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be
done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said,
"Never more!"''
Nikola Tesla,
"My Inventions: the autobiography of Nikola Tesla", Hart Bros.,
1982. Originally appeared in the Electrical experimenter magazine in 1919.
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