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Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?
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Whoever has set his whole heart upon book-making had better be sought in his works, for it is only the lees of his cup of life which he offers, in person, to the warm lips of his fellows.
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Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
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Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
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Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
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Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
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You do not publish your own verse, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.
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You don’t expect me to know what to say about a play when I don’t know who the author is, do you? If it’s by a good author, it’s a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.
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Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.
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