Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.


Sketches of American Character (1829)


Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.