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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it
The pen is the tongue of the mind
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard
To hold a pen is to be at war
The learned fool writes nonsense in better language that the unlearned - but it's still nonsense
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing
The pen is mightier than the sword
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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