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Habits Of Literary Composition Are Perfectly Familiar To Me. One Of The Rarest Of All The Intellectual Accomplishments That A Man Can Possess Is The Grand Faculty Of Arranging His Ideas. Immense Privilege! I Possess It. Do You?

Yes! 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 On With Something Like Pride... Early And Late, Through The Long Winter Nights And The Quiet Summer Days, I Drank At The Fountain Of Knowledge, And Never Wearied Of The Draught.

This Is The Story Of What A Woman's Patience Can Endure, And What A Man's Resolution Can Achieve.

Pedants, Who Have The Least Knowledge To Be Proud Of, Are Impelled Most By Vanity.

No Sensible Man Ever Engages, Unprepared, In A Fencing Match Of Words With A Woman.