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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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