Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a...
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a...
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a...
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a...
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If you are not careful, you will spend all of your time writing and never actually completing the message that you are trying to send to the world. As you work on something, take a moment to read it over and see if it truly deserves your time. If not, then strike it out.

Source: The Life Of Samuel Johnson Ll.d. Vol 2

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