Nicolas Boileau

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    No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
    Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)

    The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)