Nicholas Breton — a remark

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“The best of men are but men at best.”

A reminder that even admirable people remain fallible and human · Prose maxim, commonly attributed to Nicholas Breton

About Nicholas Breton

Nicholas Breton

c. 1554–c. 1625

In the shadowed corridors of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, where the towering figures of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson stride with immortal grace, there walks a quieter, more elusive figure — Nicholas Breton. Born around 1554 and vanishing from historical record by approximately 1625, Breton was a prolific…

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