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1877–1880 • Hartford, Conn.?
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Dr Sir or Madam:
Experience has not taught me ‸very‸ much; still it has taught me that it is not wise to criticise a piece of literature, except to an enemy of the person who wrote it; then, that enem if you praise it, that enemy admires you for your honest manliness, & if you dispraise it he admires you for your sound judgment.
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