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Nothing more foolish is than foolish laughter.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
Talent is the god of moments,
Genius is the god of ages.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
Chloe, poetess and beauty, is in two small things perverse;
She makes up her own complexion, but she writes not her own verse.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
Hymen is a malady
Which hath but one cure, Love.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
Heavens, what an age! when man to man doth cry
Let us be brothers—for if not, you die.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
Oh, the erudite fool, with his chattering ways!
He says all that he knows, and knows not what he says.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
'Tis true enough, though it may seem absurd,
That literal rendering is not true translating.
He who his author follows word by word,
Is but a footman on his master waiting.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)
So fertile are our hills, so rich the plains below,
Said a Gascon of Bordeaux,
That if we planted sheaths, then straightway knives would grow.
Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904)