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Ludvig Holberg

I have often recommended freedom of writing and regarded the public censors as bands and links for the learned world. I alone am of the opinion that freedom of writing should not be allowed without those who have reached a certain age; and I have been strengthened in it, after having for some time seen young persons, before they have had their beards on their chins, to lead the pen in the most delicate matters, both political and moral. These are the things which David spake, saying, Let them remain in Jericho until their beards grow.

Ludvig Holberg

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I dare say freely, foolish and unscrupulous people; since daily experience shows that the most incompetent and inconvenient citizens in a city are most fruitful in proposing reforms, and that no one with greater zeal seeks to cure state errors than he who himself needs to be cured: just as no one is more comfortable to reformer than he who doubts himself; for his fear can serve as proof of his insight into a thing and his ability.

Ludvig Holberg

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No one can judge a play without one who has studied a theater, and from experience has noticed what effect a comedy has on the stage: And, when it is, one can not reflect much on their judgments, which sit at home and criticize in their writing-rooms, without having seen a play's performance; for the same can not judge without the style, about moral sentents, and the regularity of a piece, as experience teaches that a comedy, which according to all academic rules is arranged, is no comedy. For many a play, which by reading seems to be of no importance, has the most excellent effect on the stage. The weight and validity of a play is therefore not based on the critics of learned journalists, but on the applause of the spectators: when I say the spectators, I mean only those who have a natural and unspoiled taste.

Ludvig Holberg

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But I dare, without vanity, to say that our Nordic spectators, preferably of the middle class, are far more comfortable judges here than the Parisians: for if the former do not have as fine a taste as the latter, then they do have it. not so strange and corrupt.

Ludvig Holberg

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A so-called good friend recently told me in confidence that some in a certain company spoke ill of me, and that he had taken me into defense. I thanked him for his Defense; but said at the same time that I would have been more indebted to him than if he had not told me himself: for I could not regard such reports as a sign of friendship, as if they were worthless, without setting one in motion, and to sow the seed of unity among men. I do not consider it my enemy, who in a merry company skims with my person, but rather he who reports me such skims: The first over a glass of wine often means nothing with it, but skims, either to show his fertile spirit, or to make the Company merry. The other, on the other hand, who brings me talk, who is incapable of knowing me, and who he can be assured of wanting to disturb my mind, can mean nothing good by it.

Ludvig Holberg

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489 / 5000 Результаты перевода For, though a thing may be the same, yet the way in which it happens causes it not to be the same. This is based on the many inventions one has in Byrder's order, and the many names one puts on taxes; which many regard as idle pedantry, since there is a large police force in it, as experience shows that most people would be treated as small children, and that they can be brought without difficulty to undergo burdens when imposed under certain names.

Ludvig Holberg

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... I admit that the characters are outrageous in certain pieces; but it must be said that Agt is skeed by a very deliberate mind, and by a pure necessity, as I, as well as others by experience, have noticed that plays without outrageous characters, or without what academic censors regard as errors, have no effect.

Ludvig Holberg