Quote #77

A small task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

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  3. Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.
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  5. Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
  6. Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
  7. He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recogn…
  8. Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

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