Tomás de Iriarte

Quotes

• “  Guarde para su regaloEsta sentencia un autor;Si el sabio no aprueba, malo!Si el necio aplaude, peor!”
• “Perdonadme, sutiles y altas Musas,Las que hacéis vanidad de ser confusas.Os puedo yo decir con mejor modoQue sin la claridad os falta todo?”
• “Thus, might I drop into an author's ear  A piece of counsel, I would say, "Be sure,Whate'er you write, to keep your meaning clear;  For dulness only ever is obscure. — Rockliff”
• “Dress does not give knowledge.”
• “Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material.”
• “The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad.”

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