Quote by Nicholas Boileau
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. - Nicholas Boileau

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. – Nicholas Boileau

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason. – Thomas Aquinas

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As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. – Catharine Esther Beecher

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