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The Magic Of The Pen Lies In The Concentration Of Your Thoughts Upon One Object.

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To Write Much, And To Write Rapidly, Are Empty Boasts. The World Desires To Know What You Have Done, And Not How You Did It.

In Science The Paramount Appeal Is To The Intellect-its Purpose Being Instruction; In Art, The Paramount Appeal Is To The Emotions-its Purpose Being Pleasure.

Most Expositions Of Aristotle's Doctrines, When They Have Not Been Dictated By A Spirit Of Virulent Detraction, Or Unsympathetic Indifference, Have Carefully Suppressed All, Or Nearly All, The Absurdities, And Only Retained What Seemed Plausible And Consistent. But In This Procedure Their Historical Significance Disappears.