"Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes."

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It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

— Sarah Josepha Hale