| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5835 |
| QUOTATION: | On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. My Heart Laid Bare (written c. 1865), publ. in Intimate Journals, sct. 71 (1887), trans. by Christopher Isherwood (1930), rev. by Don Bachardy (1989). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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