A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

There are people who resemble popular songs: they are sung for a time and then forgotten.
 
[Il y a des gens qui ressemblent aux vaudevilles, qu’on ne chante qu’un certain temps.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶211 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

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Ik blijf moeite houden met het woord #topcrimineel. In #top zit toch iets van waardering besloten.
(#topscore #tophit #topfit #topprestatie, etc.)

In topcrimineel wordt top bedoeld als 'hoog in de rangen van'... Een hooggeplaatste crimineel dus. Maar dat klinkt ook positiever dan de bedoeling is...

Voortaan maar gewoon 'crimineel' dus?

Der #Tophit 2023: "50 shades of rain" 🌧️

Sometimes when I'm re-reading my own work (as in proofreading), I find a line that really makes me smile.

Eli was a rare bird who could follow her thought processes, which were an awful lot like six squirrels unexpectedly loosed in a bouncy house.

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