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"One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index."

Oliver Goldsmith / The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.

The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

Oliver Goldsmith / The Bee. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.

The Bee. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain