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 That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most 
knowledge, and takes from him the least time.  
 That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most 
knowledge, and takes from him the least time. 
 There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they 
suffer so much from critics and publishers in read more 
 There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they 
suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. 
 Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
 Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
  Who from the read more 
 Oh! rather give me commentators plain,
 Who with no deep researches vex the brain;
  Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,
   And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. 
 Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the 
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall read more 
 Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the 
everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them 
as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and 
feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones. 
 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.  
 Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle 
of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. 
Smelling of the lamp.
Smelling of the lamp.
 As so I penned
 It down, until at last it came to be,
  For length and breadth, read more 
 As so I penned
 It down, until at last it came to be,
  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see. 
 The book that he has made renders its author this service in 
return, that so long as the book read more 
 The book that he has made renders its author this service in 
return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains 
immortal and cannot die. 
 Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one 
direction, have great influence on the public mind.  
 Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one 
direction, have great influence on the public mind.