'Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.'
'Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.'
'How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.'
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‘With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.'