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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ↗

— Voltaire

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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. ↗

— John Cheever

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One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. ↗

— James Payn

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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