"In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring."

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Source: Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

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Jules Renard was a French author known for his insightful observations on human nature and his influential work, 'Poil de Carotte'.

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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."

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