"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Outnumbered
Chamfort (1741-1794):
There are more lunatics than wise men, and even within the wise man there is more lunacy than wisdom.
Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.