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May
One
Only a small minority of authors overwrite themselves. Most of the good and the tolerable ones do not write enough.
Two
The entire business of success is a gigantic tacit conspiracy on the part of the minority to deceive the majority.
Three
There are at least three women-journalists in Europe to-day whose influence is felt in Cabinets and places where they govern (proving that sex is not a bar to the proper understanding of la haute politique); whereas the man who dares to write on fashions does not exist.
Four
Habits are the very dickens to change.