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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

— Ring Lardner Preface to How to Write Short Stories (1924)

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Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.

Soon my father had payed the check and gave the waiter a lordly bribe and once more we sprang into the machine and was on our way.

The Young Immigrunts (1920)

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