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“Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. A king (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. He merely wields the lever of state, which a child, an idiot or a madman can do. It is the office, not the man we gaze at. Any one else in the same situation would be just as much as object of abject curiosity.
- The Indian Juggler”
― William Hazlitt: Essays
- The Indian Juggler”
― William Hazlitt: Essays
“If the work weren't difficult I'd die of boredom.”
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“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
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“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
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“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions. The color is repellent, almost revolting; a shouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”
― The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Seminal Work on Gender and Mental Health
― The Yellow Wallpaper: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Seminal Work on Gender and Mental Health
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