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Good taste is the flower of good sense. A. Poincelot

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and...

A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation. Howard Crosby

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? …Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. Tennessee Williams

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their...

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau. Josephine Preston Peabody