There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. (Charles Caleb Colton)

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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