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“Defining night by darkness, death by dust.”
— Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Water and Wood.
“Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?”
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter I.
“Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura.”
— Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
“We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Chapter XII.
“Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.”
— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 27.
“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Essay, Contrast.

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