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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
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Suggest Revision: Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
  
The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that he may not ascribe to himself the invention of arts generally known; weary his attention with experime.
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Suggest Revision: The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that he may not ascribe to himself the invention of arts generally known; weary his attention with experime.
  
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
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Suggest Revision: Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
  
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Suggest Revision: Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
  
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
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Suggest Revision: He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
  
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
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Suggest Revision: Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
  
A man will turn over half a library to make one book
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That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
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Suggest Revision: That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
  

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