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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms. – Samuel Butler

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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. – Samuel Butler

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All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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