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Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...

Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

Never pursue literature as a trade.

The two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I counted two and seventy stenches,All well defined, and several stinks.

About, about, in reel and routThe death fires danced at night.

Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry.

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Ever trying to get us to behave, he banned all alcohol from the green room and was exasperated one evening when, ten minutes before the show, we all had to be extracted from the pub next door.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.

I love to write about the outdoors, no matter where it's located: about a place that's captured my imagination and that I wish to re-create for the reader's pleasure.

I asked you a question. What are you doing here?" Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.

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To the best of your knowledge, Charles, do villains ever permit themselves to be rained on?" "Not to my knowledge, no, sir.

The muscle in Matthew's jaw contracted. First pirates, then this fop. Kathryn did not seem to be a woman of discriminating taste when it came to men.

My own heart's secrecy been his, my cat insanities of night.

Shouldn't we try to help him?' Simla asked. I shook my head, with as much reluctance as I could feign. 'I wish we could,' I lied.

Only a keen sense of public duty restrains me from plugging you where you sit, you ineffable swine.

Deathless Aphrodite on your rich-wrought throne.