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- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
- There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It…
- The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in…
- There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
- There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the…
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