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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1636
Born: January 1
Died: 1711
Died: January 1
Historian
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Literary Critic
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Paris
France
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.
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