Let a single complete action, ...

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
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The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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