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Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions - namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

John William Mackail

John William Mackail

Born: August 26, 1859
Died: December 13, 1945 (aged 86)
Bio: John William Mackail was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer.
Known for:
  1. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
  2. The Life of William Morris (1899)
  3. Biblia Innocentium (1892)
  4. Latin Literature (1895)
  5. Lectures on Poetry (1911)

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