Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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