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Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Rest...more

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I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—an...more

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I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kin...more