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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walte

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it. – Walter Bagehot

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit. – Richard Bach

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Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

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