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Beware
of naysayers
offering miscounsel.
Trust your own capacity to
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Author Notes
Today's word: miscounsel (n.) bad advice.
The poet laureate, Robert Southey, once offered some advice to a young woman who sent him some of her poems to review:
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure she will have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.
The name of the 20-year-old who received this scathing response?
Charlotte Bronte.
Enough said.
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