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Author Quotes by Voltaire
- In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
- Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
- Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and…
- Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile genius, full of…
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