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  ...For a time you fall yourself into this very unfortunate hallucination; you cultivate it after the usual college fashion, by drinking a vast deal of strong coffee and whiskey-toddy, by writing a little poor verse in the Byronic temper, and by studying very late at night with closed blinds.
It costs you however more anxiety and hypocrisy than you could possibly have believed.
----You will learn, Clarence, when the Autumn has rounded your hopeful Summer, if not before, that There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.   You will learn, that all the traditions so current among very young men that certain great characters have wrought their greatness by an inspiration, as it were, grow out of a sad mistake.
And you will further find, when you come to measure yourself with men, that there are no rivals so formidable as those earnest, determined minds which reckon the value of every hour, and which achieve eminence by persistent application.
Literary ambition may inflame you at certain periods and a...   Mitchell, Don G.

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