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• He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- Satire 2...
• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto iii, Line 374...
• Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto i, Line 75...
• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)
• Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
  -- Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711)...
• He says a thousand pleasant things, but never "Adieu.
• Government: You make it, we take it.
• Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
• They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within.
  I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin....