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Authorship Quotes and Quotations
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. The pen is the tongue of the mind. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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