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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

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Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

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People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

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People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

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