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Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1636
Born: January 1
Died: 1711
Died: January 1
Historian
Lawyer
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Paris
France
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
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Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
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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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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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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.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
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It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
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Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach once we have left it, we can never return.
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