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"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity." -
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Top 5 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Top 5 quotes from Writing
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
"Journalism is literature in a hurry."
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