"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."
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Source: Jean Racine (2000). “Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah”, p.87, Wordsworth Editions
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