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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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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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. – Henry Bolingbroke

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That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. – Lyman Frank Baum

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