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Said of insipid poetry, composed without care and labour.
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Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?
O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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