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“Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ”
― Bertolt Brecht

“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia