Advice for writers from an 18th century sage.

“If you have not the advantage of friends to survey your writings, then read them over yourself, and all the way consider what will be the sentence and judgment of all the various characters of mankind upon them:  think what one of your own party would say, or what would be the sense of an adversary; imagine what a curious or malicious man, what a captious or an envious critic, what a vulgar or a learned reader would object, either to the matter,...
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