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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read
It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall
The pen is the tongue of the mind
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing
The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
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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."
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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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