Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
- Mark Twain
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The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
-Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
- from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, 1603
