“One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.”
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Source: Literary Studies: The first Edinburgh reviewers (1855) Hartley Coleridge (1852) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1856) Shakespeare the man (1853) John Milton (1859) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1862) William Cowper (1855) Appendices; Letters on the French coup d̓etat
“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)
“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims