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Tempt not a desperate man.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in...
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up...
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The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box...
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There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad...
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You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is...
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet....
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time,...