There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man. - E. W. Howe

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I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

E. W. Howe

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

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A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

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