"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

Desire, Intention, Public, Vocation

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"My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum."

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"It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls."

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"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."

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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."

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