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“I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.”

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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

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