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Publishers are humane men, and rarely commit crimes. Authors, however, are a hardened set, who usually perpertrate a felony every time they issue a book.

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Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

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The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

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No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

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Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Robert Barr

Robert Barr
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Born: September 16, 1849
Died: October 21, 1912 (aged 63)
Bio: Robert Barr was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Known for:
  1. The triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906)
  2. Jennie Baxter, Journalist (1898)
  3. A prince of good fellows (1902)
  4. In the Midst of Alarms (1894)
  5. The Face and the Mask (1894)

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