| If you wish to inflict a heartless and
malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a
year. - The Innocents Abroad |
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| At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a
faithful record of his performances in a book; and he dashes at this work
with an enthusiasm that imposes on him the notion that keeping a journal
is the veriest pastime in the world, and the pleasantest. But if he only
lives twenty-one days, he will find out that only those rare natures that
are made up of pluck, endurance, devotion to duty for duty's sake, and invincible
determination, may hope to venture upon so tremendous an enterprise as the
keeping of a journal and not sustain a shameful defeat. - The Innocents Abroad |
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