"A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author."

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Charles Lamb

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“A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.”
“When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.”
“In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.”
“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”
“Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.”
“You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.”
“In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them”
“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

Source : Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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