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325. Anecdotes; Writing
"I love anecdotes. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write
all aphoristically,
except
in narrative; grow weary of
preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts
by which a big book is made. If a man is to wait till he weaves
anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get
but a few, in comparison of what we might get."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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