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Nicolas Boileau was a 17th-century French poet and critic. Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
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“A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.”
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“That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.”
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“Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.”
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“Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.”
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“Hasten slowly and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.”
— Nicolas Boileau
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