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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; read more
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying read more
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they read more
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
