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“A large number of readers,
who
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have wearied of
minute
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descriptions of
the commonplace,
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are to-day
often found condemning
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an author who
does not keep his
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hero in imminent
danger of death
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through at least
seventy-five
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percent of his
pages.“ --John
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Kendrick Bangs,
1898
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