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I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.

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Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

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Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality. . . These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.

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Style is the essence of man

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