No pet, I don't think so

"And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?"
- Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), French essayist. Of Giving the Lie, The Essays (Les Essais), bk. II, ch. 18, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).