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| | Steven Philip Jones On Writing |
 | | Shakespeare, Corneille, Calderon, Goethe, and SchillerI laid their works before me, like on the surgeons table, and with scalpel in hand, long nights through, I probed them to the heart to discover the secret of their life. |
 | | I saw by what admirable mechanism these authors set the nerves and muscles of their creatures moving and working, and noted with what skill they clothed and re-clothed with different flesh that framework which was always the same." [Alexandre Dumas, quoted by H.A. Spur in The Life and Writing of Alexandre Dumas, p. |
 | | If in mechanics force be applied in an improper way, either the work will not be done at all, or, if done, will be accomplished only with great waste of energy. |
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