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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."

"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."

"And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio."

"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
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"Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw."

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease."

"Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes."
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