There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of pay…

Thomas Carlyle
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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