Pebbles From the Fountain of Castalia: A Collection of Poems (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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But the good sense of the present day has, in a great measure, exploded as idle and impertinent this Species of literary affectation. Whatever a writer may pro fess, praise or profit will always be considered his real motive; and when he has once overcome his feelings so far as to venture upon the public stage, if his other merits are only in proportion to his modesty, he will find that he has overrated his pretensions.

An author should disdain to fight under false colors, or owe his security to anything but his strength; his object is not to escape with impunity, but to acquit himself with credit; and it can neither provoke his fate, nor prejudice his reception, to avow honestly that he has more ambition than prudence.

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