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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.
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.
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- George Henry Lewes (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 49 · quotation 20 · George Henry Lewes · The Spanish Drama. Ch. III.
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