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• Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.…
• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
• The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
• As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped…
• Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the…
• Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
• No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and…
• Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
• The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and…

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