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— Jean de la Bruyere"A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably."
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]
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