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Updated: May 9, 2025

Let him make short long, and long short if he will, 'tis no great matter; if there be invention, and that the wit and judgment have well performed their offices, I will say, here's a good poet, but an ill rhymer. "Emunctae naris, durus componere versus." Let a man, says Horace, divest his work of all method and measure,

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 05