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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Page 54
... writer must always say them , is a cardinal point in the training of the humorist , and for this reason I believe that the writing of advertisements is one of the best courses of instruction through which the man ambitious to shine as a ...
... writer must always say them , is a cardinal point in the training of the humorist , and for this reason I believe that the writing of advertisements is one of the best courses of instruction through which the man ambitious to shine as a ...
Page 56
... writers that had bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory , or middle state . I do not want to handle , to profane the leaves , their winding - sheets . I could as soon dislodge a shade . I seem ...
... writers that had bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory , or middle state . I do not want to handle , to profane the leaves , their winding - sheets . I could as soon dislodge a shade . I seem ...
Page 59
... writing funny things , you must work . Don't be afraid of kill- ing yourself by overworking on the sunny side of thirty . Men die sometimes , but it is because they quit at nine p.m. and don't go home until two a.m. It ' s the intervals ...
... writing funny things , you must work . Don't be afraid of kill- ing yourself by overworking on the sunny side of thirty . Men die sometimes , but it is because they quit at nine p.m. and don't go home until two a.m. It ' s the intervals ...
Page 62
... writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy ; the others have too high a price . A genuine craftsman will not adulterate his product . The reason is n't because duty says he should n't , but because passion says he could n ...
... writers who have nothing to say are the ones you can buy ; the others have too high a price . A genuine craftsman will not adulterate his product . The reason is n't because duty says he should n't , but because passion says he could n ...
Page 81
... writing , the craft , out of our stories and essays and poems , and make the reader feel he was face to face with ... writers have it , is quite another . It may , and often does , go with faulty workmanship . It is the choice of words ...
... writing , the craft , out of our stories and essays and poems , and make the reader feel he was face to face with ... writers have it , is quite another . It may , and often does , go with faulty workmanship . It is the choice of words ...
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