Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of … - Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

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