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Love Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- With poverty everything becomes frightful.
- Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
- The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
- Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
- Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
- What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
- Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
- Something of calumny always sticks.
- A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
- Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
- That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
- Truth has not such an urgent air.
- A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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