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3 septembre 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.3230
- isbn: 9782251661810
- eisbn: 9791036516412
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Irène Simon, « Against Foolish Talking and Jesting », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.3230
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Moral and political Aphorisms are seldom couched in such terms, that they should be taken as they sound precisely, or according to the widest extent of signification; but do commonly need exposition, and admit exception: otherwise frequently they would not onely clash with reason and experience, but interfere, thwart and supplant one another. The best Masters of such wisedom are wont to interdict things, apt by unseasonable or excessive use to be perverted, in general forms of speech, leaving...