'The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.'
'It is with books as with men - a very small number play a great part; the rest are lost in the multitude.'
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'There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.'