Nicholas Boileau's Quote - Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. – Nicholas Boileau

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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. – Nicholas Boileau

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicholas Boileau

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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. – Joseph Addison

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A hundred years cannot repair a moments loss of honor. – Proverb

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

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One may survive distress, but not disgrace. – Scottish Proverb

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