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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."
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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers."
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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
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