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Of Charles Dickens:
He writes too often and too fast … If he persists much longer in this course, it requires no gift of prophecy to foretell his fate – he has risen like a rocket, and he will come down like a stick.
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The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Abraham Hayward
Born:
November 22, 1801
Died:
February 2, 1884
(aged 82)
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Abraham Hayward was an English man of letters.
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DR JOHNSONS MRS THRALE AUTOBIO
Biographical and critical essays (1858)
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