"There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon."

— Charles Caleb Colton

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