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Quote by Samuel Butler
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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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. – Juvenal, Satires

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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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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