Samuel Butler: Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look — Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.

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