Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloqu

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. – Nicolas Chamfort

Other quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Death
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Nature
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Change
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. – Thomas Wolfe

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Art

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. – A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Art

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali

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Art

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx

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Art

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