“Novelty pleases all because it is uncommon, taste is refreshed, and a brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.”
Balthasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, tr. J. Jacobs (London: MacMillan and Co., 1892), §.cclxix, p.162.
3 comments:
The translation is a little clunky.
Baby and bathwater spring to mind.
No theory is so firmly believed as what we least know--Montaigne
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