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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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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
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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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