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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie/ Couched on the bald top of an eminence.

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For still, the more he works, the moreDo his weak ankles swell.

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A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food;...

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

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And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the lawIn calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind.

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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