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“Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Poverty #Poor
“Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Gold #Ugly
“He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Art #Writing #Limits
“Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Friendship #Praise #Advise
“Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Honest #Praise #Persons
“Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Reason #Rhyme
“What is conceived well is expressed clearly.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Simplicity #Wells
“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.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Men #Thinking #Rome
“A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Powerful #Burlesque
“When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Envy #Vices #Virtue
“Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Long #Lines #Ancestry
“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.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Stars #Thinking #Heaven
“In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Wisdom #Lying #Differences
“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.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Break Up #Glasses #Wish
“Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Style #Age #Way
“The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Burden
“Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Lovely #Truth Is
“Who lives content with little possesses everything.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Simple #Littles #Simple Living
“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Stupidity #Fool #Bigger
“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Fool #Admire #Humour
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Giving #Gold #Poverty
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Beach #Islands #Honor
“Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Nature #Spring #Trying
“With poverty everything becomes frightful.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Poverty
“No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Writing #Limits #Able
“Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Fool #Satisfied
“If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Life #Fire #Heroic
“Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Flow #Oratory #Ease
“Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Beauty #Beautiful #Truth
“Of every four words I write, I strike out three.”
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#Writing #Editing #Four

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