La Rochefoucauld §laroch_413: A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

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Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_413) · external_aligned

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. [According to Segrais this maxim was a hit at Racine and Boileau, who, despising ordinary conversation, talked incessantly of literature; but there is some doubt as to Segrais' statement.--Aime Martin.]

Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

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