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Quote by Mark Twain
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. – Mark Twain

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The Christians Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. – Mark Twain

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No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain

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The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way. – Mark Twain

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

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