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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

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The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

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When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

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Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out.

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The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.

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Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good.