Excerpt from Best Things From Best Authors, Vol. 9: Comprising Numbers Twenty-Five, Twenty-Six, and Twenty-Seven of Shoemaker's Best Selections<br><br>Now, if I were talking shop to my brethren of the scribbling trade, I should point this obvious moral, that it is our duty to write nothing but the best thoughts, and to write them in the best words at our command. If it be a benefit to the race to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, how evil a thing it must be to place a noxious weed where a good plant might grow. Yet that is what men are doing, in books and magazines, and even in the illustrated supplements of the Sunday news papers. They are writing stuff that, for the good Of the world, had better be left unwritten. But men must write, they say, and if they cannot write well, they must write as well as they can. Stuff and non sense! NO man is under compulsion to write at all. Why not join Colonel Waring's white-robed brigade instead It would be far better to make the streets clean than to make books and papers unclean.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.