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- A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of…
- The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
- Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,…
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
- Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
- The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege…
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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