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Let every author regard this maxim for a rule: If the wise do not express their approbation, it is bad; if the fool applaud, it is worse.
Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)
The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Perdonadme, sutiles y altas Musas,
Las que hacéis vanidad de ser confusas.
Os puedo yo decir con mejor modo
Que sin la claridad os falta todo?
Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)
Dress does not give knowledge.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The quill hath a good tongue.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Thus, might I drop into an author's ear
A piece of counsel, I would say, "Be sure,
Whate'er you write, to keep your meaning clear;
For dulness only ever is obscure. — Rockliff
Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)