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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.