"The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back...

The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest sp...
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