To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. (Charles Caleb Colton)

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Charles Caleb Colton

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