It is said -- That there is hardly a bar of his music which Beethoven did not rewrite a dozen times. That Bryant rewrote Thanatopis a hundred times. That Gibbon rewrote his Autobiography nine times. That Plato wrote the first sentence in his Republic nine times. That Virgil spent twelve years writing his Aeneid. That Margaret Mitchell wrote the final chapter of Gone with the Wind before she wrote the book.

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