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Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Barack Obama's remarks at University of Michigan Spring Commencement, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 1, 2010.

Many get the repute of being witty but thereby lose the credit of being sensible. Jest has its little hour, seriousness should have all the rest.

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.20, 谷月社

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Anton Chekhov (2008). “How to Write Like Chekhov: Advice and Inspiration, Straight from His Own Letters and Work”, p.19, Da Capo Press

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Anton Chekhov (2016). “The Cherry Orchard: A Comedy in Four Acts”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing