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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet....
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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned...
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says...
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Everything has two handles,–one by which it may be borne another by which it...
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it...
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it...