In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spool spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards, and is traced back to the
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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your appro
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, th
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The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who ma
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[I] am now struggling to enter the portals of the profession in which is locked up the passport which is to conduct me to all that
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost--that is to say, on
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Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illum
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Great writers are either husbands or lovers. Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, gen
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My father was a gentleman of many virtues,--but he had a strong spice of that in his temper which might, or might not, add to the
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