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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
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted
A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue 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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