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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
pedants culture forget
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. Albert J. Nock
pedants poet joyce
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. George Orwell
pedants experts logic
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse. H. L. Mencken
pedants type prepositions
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill
faults
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. Charles Spurgeon
faults virtue
Magnify the virtues, minimize the faults. Edgar Cayce
faults virtue glorify
Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.
faults innocence innocent
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. Edmund Waller
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault. Charles Dudley Warner
faults credit talent
Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them. Charles Marion Russell
faults debt lenders
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. Bernard Levin
faults critics shows
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults. Benjamin Franklin
faults may suspicion
Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.