Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, … - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species.

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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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