A natural Repugnancy prevented me a long time from answering his advances.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book VIII."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Madam de Boufflers highly disapproved this resolution, and renewed her efforts to induce me to go to England, but all she could say was of no effect; I had never loved England nor the English, and the eloquence of Madam de Boufflers, far from conquering my Repugnancy, seemed to increase it without my knowing why.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book XI."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
It was the distillers of that thinness, the mere ones, that must have been present to him when he wrote to Emerson in 1849: There is nothing I dread so much as literary men, especially our literary men; catch them out of the range of mere personal gossip about authors and books and ask them for honest sympathy in your sentiment, or for an honest Repugnancy of it, and you will find the company of stage-drivers sweeter and more comforting to your soul.
"Notes of a Son and Brother"
Henry James