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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
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune
A letter does not blush
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time
A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it
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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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