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"Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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