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Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

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The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

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to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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