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Nicolas Boileau Quotes

Brief author info: Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet and critic.

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly, And the words to say it with arrive with ease.

Nicolas Boileau

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself, Procure yourself critical friends.

Nicolas Boileau

Honor is like a steep island without a shore: one cannot return once one is outside.

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Who lives content with little possesses everything.

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Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

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