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Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset Quotes

1709–1777 France

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (29 August 1709 – 16 June 1777) was a French poet and dramatist, best known for his poem Vert-Vert, the humorous story of a parrot and a convent of nuns.

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In the pages of many an author I read
That to travel too much is an error indeed;
We rarely become any better, they say,
For a wandering life only leads us astray.

Vert-Vert (1734)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.