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- Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
- When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
- William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
- You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916)
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
- Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
- Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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