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Nicholas Boileau Quotes

«However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.»
«Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return»
Author: Nicholas Boileau | About: Honor | Keywords: an island, island, rugged, shores
«Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.»
«Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside.»
«?Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.? [That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.]»
«Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.»
«If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.»
«Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.»
«A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him»
«The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.»
Author: Nicholas Boileau | About: World | Keywords: Broken Glass

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