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Men Quotes by Roger Ascham
- He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise…
- As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
- To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
- A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into…
- He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise…
- In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but…
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