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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2107
AUTHOR:Robert Burton (1577–1640)
QUOTATION:It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Le style est l’homme même (The style is the man himself).—Buffon: Discours de Réception (Recueil de l’Académie, 1750). [back]
 

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