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We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfi...more

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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot in...more

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The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it shor

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In books, that which is most generally interesting is what comes home to the most cherished private experience of the greatest number. It is not the b...more

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and ri...more

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and...more

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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered....more

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Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will a...more

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.