Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him , and through forests and swamps of contemporary writing . For him it was the quest that mattered , it was the quest he loved 90 90 The Reader will remember Keats ' dream of << a very ...
To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him , and through forests and swamps of contemporary writing . For him it was the quest that mattered , it was the quest he loved 90 90 The Reader will remember Keats ' dream of << a very ...
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He does his clerking , his writing , his typewriting , or whatever it may be , so many hours per day . And that ends it . But what about the by - product , the odd moments ? Do you know that the men that have made great successes in ...
He does his clerking , his writing , his typewriting , or whatever it may be , so many hours per day . And that ends it . But what about the by - product , the odd moments ? Do you know that the men that have made great successes in ...
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John Ruskin's writing began with Modern Painters , Carlyle began with literary studies of German culture and the like ; both were ... and nobody else has the heart or brains to make a disturbance about it , the great writers must .
John Ruskin's writing began with Modern Painters , Carlyle began with literary studies of German culture and the like ; both were ... and nobody else has the heart or brains to make a disturbance about it , the great writers must .
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Writing is the result of thinking about things to write about and studying the details of contemporaneous life , so that you may set them down , not imaginatively but accurately . David Graham Phillips . 80 90 F we are tempted to make ...
Writing is the result of thinking about things to write about and studying the details of contemporaneous life , so that you may set them down , not imaginatively but accurately . David Graham Phillips . 80 90 F we are tempted to make ...
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I would name third the Quaker , William Penn , whose golden motto was , " We must yield the liberties we demand . " Fourth on the list is Thomas Jefferson , that " arch - infidel , " as he has been termed by some religious writers , who ...
I would name third the Quaker , William Penn , whose golden motto was , " We must yield the liberties we demand . " Fourth on the list is Thomas Jefferson , that " arch - infidel , " as he has been termed by some religious writers , who ...
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