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"Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways."
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux / The Art of Poetry. Canto iii. Line 374.

The Art of Poetry. Canto iii. Line 374.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"He [Molière] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself."
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux / Satire 2.

Satire 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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""There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell; We thrive at Westminster on fools like you. 'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,--adieu.""
Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux / Epître ii.

Epître ii.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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