Andrew Jackson on writing

One man with courage makes a majority.

To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation.

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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